About Erin Carnahan, LPCC
Offering anti-oppressive, online therapy to neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+ BIPOC in California
I’m glad you made it here
Hi, I’m Erin
(she/they)
I provide identity-affirming, online therapy to neurodivergent, multiracial, and QTBIPOC folks in the Bay Area and throughout California.
I’m a licensed therapist with a decade of experience helping multiply marginalized folks 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.
As a queer, neurodivergent, mixed race, ex-vangelical and Third Culture Kid/adult (TCK), this work is personal. My passion for supporting and equipping folks who don’t fit in or feel “behind” on their journey of deconstruction and self-discovery isn’t from a place of paternalizing or pathologizing, but comes from my hope for our collective liberation.
Maybe more importantly though, I’m a fellow human with marginalized identities and lived experiences — including of trying to find support but feeling worse instead after experiences in unaffirming therapy, church, and other institutions, relationships, and systems.
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Therapy with me is:
Person-Centered
Instead of pathologizing or adhering to rigid, cookie-cutter manuals, we focus on you — a holistic person, utterly unique and inherently worthy of care.
Intersectional
We remain conscious of privilege and power dynamics in and outside of therapy while engaging with the layered interactions and impacts that come with diverse identities and contexts.
Collaborative
Rather than power-tripping or preaching, I welcome your feedback as we honor your self-knowledge and co-create a safer space to pursue your goals together.
Liberatory
We challenge the assumptions and norms of existing oppressive systems and do the radical work of dreaming a more expansive collective future into being.
Land Acknowledgement
With deep gratitude and respect, I acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Muwekma Ohlone (“mah-wek-mah al-lone-ee”) people. Their enduring care for this place – its creeks, oaks, and winged ones – stretches beyond memory and continues today.
The present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area is made up of all known existing indigenous lineages who survived colonization, genocide, and cultural erasure, including forced missionization in the Mission San José de Guadalupe (in Fremont), Santa Clara de Thámien (in San Jose), and San Francisco de Asís (commonly known as Mission Dolores, in San Francisco). The Muwekma Ohlone are the successors of the sovereign, previously federally recognized Verona Band of Alameda County.
I invite all fellow descendants of settlers and beneficiaries of colonization to remember that we are occupying stolen land that was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone people who continue to steward the land in Oakland and throughout the Bay Area. Please join me in supporting the Muwekma Ohlone by learning more about their rich history, supporting their ongoing fight for federal re-recognition, and making financial contributions here (https://muwekma.org/).