Erin Haentjens, LMFT

Erin Haentjens practices body-centered and movement-oriented psychotherapy, guiding people toward a deeper trust in their own intuition and a more positive relationship with their bodies. She emphasizes awareness work that supports authentic self-acceptance, greater feelings of connection, and increased confidence.

She offers a supportive and safe therapeutic environment where individuals and families can explore life challenges at their own pace while identifying and building on internal strengths and resources. Her approach centers on helping clients recognize practical skills and embodied resources that support resilience and meaningful change.

Erin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. LMFT stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a credential that authorizes practice with individuals, couples, and families in the state. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a somatic specialization and a Graduate Certificate in Exercise and Sport Performance, both from John F. Kennedy University.

Her clinical experience spans more than 8 years working with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of clinical and community settings. That work has included facilitating life skills camps for incarcerated and at-risk youth, providing counseling in school, home, group home, and foster care settings, co-facilitating a women’s therapy group, offering individual psychotherapy to adults, and working with athletes and people recovering from injuries.

Drawing on personal experience as a collegiate and semi-professional athlete, she also supports and coaches athletes across ages and abilities, attending to how athletic identity, training demands, injuries, and life trauma shape relationship to the body. She has a particular focus on helping individuals and athletes rebuild resilience and wellbeing from the inside out.