Trainings and Personal Work
About Me
About Me
Erin has worked across the lifespan for ten years, supporting individuals, children, adolescents and families to understand and work through internal, relational and systemic challenges.
Specialities
ADHD, neurodiversity, gender & sexuality, trauma, anxiety, adolescence/young adulthood, parenting support for challenging behaviors, transitions
Post Graduate Training
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, CAPP Program, 2018-2020 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level 1, 2017
Dream Therapy Group, 2016-2022
Healing through Play, Using the Oaklander Model, 2020-2021
American Academy of Psychotherapists, Presenter
Dreaming, alone and together (2021)
Are you an Other, too? (2020)
MSW, Catholic University, 2013
BSFS, Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2007
Proficient in Spanish
Conversational in Portuguese
Recent Bio
Erin McCarthy, MSW practices psychotherapy with adults, teenagers and children from a contemporary relational and experiential perspective. She supports those who are willing to shift into an increased sense of playfulness, emotional depth and internal security. Part of that process is working with dreams to transform unconscious, forbidden affects and thoughts into ideas that can be symbolized, tolerated and known. She maintains practices in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA, where she moved in October 2020.
Decay
by Erin McCarthy
A sensual feast. Sour, slimy and color-changing with an unpredictable yet unmistakably “off” scent, decaying objects show us how they plan to return to the earth. Breaking down, their particles become less recognizable in form and structure -- melding into mysterious organic matter, ready to be used for fuel.