Erin McCarthy MSW

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		<title>What to Expect</title>
				
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What to ExpectOrientation


I work in a client-centered way:&#38;nbsp; I provide ample space and focus to explore the topics of your choice from week to week and over time.&#38;nbsp; I will focus on synthesizing and clarifying what I hear from you as we move toward a mutual sense of understanding what is happening inside you and in your life context.&#38;nbsp; As we uncover pieces of work to tackle together, I will help you accept your feelings as naturally occurring sensations that offer information about your values, experiences and desires and demonstrate to you multiple directions for growth and change through improved decision making and a stronger sense of self.


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As a practitioner, I respect the process of psychotherapy. What comes up, how it comes up and what doesn’t come up are all things I keep in mind and will highlight to you as we work together.&#38;nbsp; I work in a relational way and will encourage you to speak to your feelings about our relationship, what you are wanting and needing and when I misunderstand you.&#38;nbsp; This kind of relational practice can increase your tolerance for more realness and closeness in your relationships.


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	Greenhouse
by Erin McCarthy

High on a hill I see a glass structure as I approach from below.&#38;nbsp; I am drawn toward it.&#38;nbsp; The sunlight sparkles as it reflects off the sharp edges and wide planes.
I keep climbing.&#38;nbsp; I arrive, sweat beads beginning to form on the side of my brow.&#38;nbsp; 
Here, in front of me is a greenhouse.&#38;nbsp; 
As I peer inside I see delicate plants -- protected from wind, rain and storm and offered concentrated, filtered light. 

Their arms extend and grow toward the source of energy, the sun.&#38;nbsp; 
Expert gardeners tend to their bodies, clipping off dead leaves and aerating soil.&#38;nbsp; Outside many other plants gather.&#38;nbsp; 
These plants have become hardier.&#38;nbsp; 
I think the gardeners bring them in at night -- during the day they can stand to be exposed to the elements. 

A truck pulls up.&#38;nbsp; Plants and flowers are carried to the bed of the truck.&#38;nbsp; 
These plants are ready to leave the greenhouse.&#38;nbsp; 
Their work here is done.&#38;nbsp; 
They can be transplanted to a different environment.&#38;nbsp; They have internalized the care of the gardeners and the energy of the sun. 
 I see how the plants have healed.


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Who I ServePopulation

My practice serves individuals of all ages throughout the lifespan.&#38;nbsp; My offerings differ based on the expressed need as well as age of the individual.&#38;nbsp; 


Adults and Adolescents

For those who wish or need to explore and grow, understand why things are challenging for them in particular, heal from traumatic experiences or improve their ability to be in relationship with themselves and others.&#38;nbsp; My specialties include anxiety, PTSD (acute and complex), LGBTQIA+ identity and experience, grief and loss/life transitions.&#38;nbsp; 

Children and Families

For children under ten, I offer hybrid individual and family supportive therapy.&#38;nbsp; I value the attachment relationship very highly and so tailor the treatment to supporting that bond.&#38;nbsp; I have worked with many children and families and have experience with diagnosis, treatment and referrals to adjunct therapies.&#38;nbsp; My specialities include explosive behavior, ADHD, anxiety, depression and family stressors.&#38;nbsp; My treatment plan generally involves a mix of dyadic (parent-child) sessions, parenting support sessions and occasional individual sessions with the child.&#38;nbsp; 
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	Surprise
by Erin McCarthy
	In the crack of a rooftop one finds a thick clump of moss.&#38;nbsp; How did this plant arrive here? On the wind or on someone’s shoe, through a bird’s digestion?&#38;nbsp; Where did it come from?&#38;nbsp; Has it existed here for a long time or did it just emerge when the frost lifted and the winter shifted into a tentative spring?
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		<title>Training and Personal Work</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:04:17 +0000</pubDate>

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Trainings and Personal Work
About Me

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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 &#38;amp; 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 &#38;nbsp;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.&#38;nbsp; She supports those who are willing to shift into an increased sense of playfulness, emotional depth and internal security.&#38;nbsp; Part of that process is working with dreams to transform unconscious, forbidden affects and thoughts into ideas that can be symbolized, tolerated and known.&#38;nbsp; She maintains practices in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA, where she moved in October 2020.


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Decay
by Erin McCarthy

	A sensual feast.&#38;nbsp; Sour, slimy and color-changing with an unpredictable yet unmistakably “off” scent, decaying objects show us how they plan to return to the earth.&#38;nbsp; Breaking down, their particles become less recognizable in form and structure -- melding into mysterious organic matter, ready to be used for fuel. &#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Theory and Inspiration</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:04:18 +0000</pubDate>

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	Theory and Inspiration


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	Remedios Varo 

Mujer saliendo del psicoanalista (1960)


Cave
by Erin McCarthyA gash in the earth, elemental: water, stone and sand surround and support vacant --but not empty-- space that expands as we travel deeper.

Space with potential, space that protects, enclosed and preserving, space for hiding.&#38;nbsp; 

Water drips down, droplet by droplet, leaving microscopic bits of particles that together form structures, creamy and figurative. 

In a rush? 
The cave has its own pace -- it measures years passed by fractions of inches, not feet.&#38;nbsp;  
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Cartography
Foxes on the Hill
A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
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	Illustration
The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician


					The Problem
of Life is old. I have endeavored to approach it afresh, with a
new method, in a new spirit, from a new point of view.
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	Dimensionality
The Common Life
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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	Cartography
THE POEM THAT TOOK THE PLACE OF A MOUNTAINLook upon these splendid treasures of bound-up time, imagine them taken away, and your sense of the appalling loss will give you the measure required.


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	Dimensionality
Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds

	
					An event is a very complex fact, and the
relations between two events form an almost impenetrable
maze.

				
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	IllustrationNot Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself

	
					Before a sign may acquire meaning and
therefore become a symbol there must exist something for
this sign to symbolize.

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Cartography
Nomad Exquisite

	
					It is now evident that intellectual life is one long process
of abstractions, generalizations, and assumptions — the three
things are so many aspects of one whole activity.
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	Illustration
THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR
Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that.


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	Cartography
The House Was Quiet and The World Was CalmMan’s achievements rest upon the use of symbols. We must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

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	DimensionalityThe Doctor of GenevaIf words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

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