About Erin Carnahan, LPCC

Hello! I’m Erin Carnahan (she/her), MA, CCMHC, LPCC

I’m a licensed therapist based in Oakland, CA offering secure identity-affirming online therapy to folks in the Bay Area and throughout California

I help neurodivergent, queer, and multiracial adults to become secure in their authentic selves and to navigate their intersectional identities within reductive and oppressive systems by validating their experiences, affirming their whole selves, and empowering them to pursue what matters most to them.

  • Identify and strengthen what keeps them rooted

  • Develop greater self-awareness, acceptance, and assurance

  • Learn to prune painful patterns

  • Nurture healthy relationships with themselves, others, and the past

  • Plant the seeds of the purposeful life they’ve been longing for

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Through our collaborative work together, my clients:

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I understand how isolating it can be to not have relationships or communities where you can be wholly yourself. To feel too conspicuous, inadequate, or complicated to belong or even just to be.

It can be so exhausting to continuously explain your own existence, overwhelming to try to keep up with someone else’s definition of normal, and disheartening to repeatedly get the message that there’s something wrong with you. 

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While knowing how it feels to be the “other” has given me a humble and non-judgmental curiosity that can lighten the burden of such wearisome educating and self-explaining, I don’t presume to be an expert on you.

Instead, I gladly bring my own knowledge and clinical expertise from community, secular, religious, and college settings and recognize that you remain the authority on your own experience.

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Joining you in your journey, guided by your goals and values, and going at your pace, I equip and empower you to access your own insight and wisdom to build a life worth living.