ABOUT
ABOUT
Hello There
People have different thoughts, feelings, and expectations around therapy. Maybe you're considering coming for the first time ever or, maybe this isn't your first rodeo. Maybe know what you need or want in a therapist or, maybe you feel clueless.
Below is some information about me to help you in deciding if we could be a good fit in this work together. You are more than welcome to flick me an email if you've got follow up questions for me or would like to get chatting.
Hello There
People have different thoughts, feelings, and expectations around therapy. Maybe you're considering coming for the first time ever or, maybe this isn't your first rodeo. Maybe know what you need or want in a therapist or, maybe you feel clueless.
Below is some information about me to help you in deciding if we could be a good fit in this work together. You are more than welcome to flick me an email if you've got follow up questions for me or would like to get chatting.
Erin Mansfield
Accredited Mental Health
Social Worker
Here is the
nutshell version...
I started working as helping professional back in 2007 (when I was studying to become a Registered Nurse and working in the field) and practicing a Social Worker and therapist since 2020. Throughout my career I've worked in the non-government sector, public health system, and private practice space. My experience spans across the areas of mental health, substance use and addiction, various forms of trauma and adversity, violence and offending behaviours, and disabilities.
My areas of clinical experience include but are not limited to:
PTSD and C-PTSD
Dissociative disorders
Personality disorders
Experiences of psychosis
Hearing voices
Substance use and addiction
Self-harm and self-injury
Suicidal ideation and behaviours
Anxiety and OCD
ADHD and Autism
Chronic depression
Trauma and adversity
Sexual assault and abuse
Family and domestic violence
Attachment disruptions, emotion deprivation and neglect
Systemic harms and injustices
Erin Mansfield
Accredited Mental Health
Social Worker
Here is the
nutshell version...
I started working as helping professional back in 2007 (when I was studying to become a Registered Nurse and working in the field) and practicing a Social Worker and therapist since 2020. Throughout my career I've worked in the non-government sector, public health system, and private practice space. My experience spans across the areas of mental health, substance use and addiction, various forms of trauma and adversity, violence and offending behaviours, and disabilities.
My areas of clinical experience include but are not limited to:
PTSD and C-PTSD
Dissociative disorders
Personality disorders
Experiences of psychosis
Hearing voices
Substance use and addiction
Self-harm and self-injury
Suicidal ideation and behaviours
Anxiety and OCD
ADHD and Autism
Chronic depression
Trauma and adversity
Sexual assault and abuse
Family and domestic violence
Attachment disruptions, emotion deprivation and neglect
Systemic harms and injustices
Collaborative
Therapy isn’t something that is done to you, it’s done with you. We acknowledge that unequal power dynamics exist in therapy and see genuine collaboration between client and therapist as an essential part of reducing these imbalances and creating meaningful change.
Therapies and
Approach
I've trained in many therapeutic modalities over the years however, these are the ones I resonate with most (listed in alphabetical order). They are robust and flexible therapies which I use in a trauma-, dissociation-, attachment-, and identity-affirming and informed way.
I’m what you would call an ‘integrative therapist’. This means that I draw from my training and experience to meet your particular needs, challenges, preferences, goals, readiness, etc. Ultimately, our partnership and collaboration in therapy is the secret sauce!
Generally speaking, I tend to go beyond symptom management and support you with exploring and shifting the root cause/s of your challenges. I don’t take a one-size-fits-all approach and I don’t do quick fixes. I'm here to help you with whatever meaningful, sustainable and achievable change looks like for you.
DBT is a type of cognitive behaviour therapy that focuses radical acceptance and change. It's skills and concepts fall into these four categories: distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and mindfulness. DBT is often recommended for those who are struggling with intense feelings and dysregulation, urges and impulsivity, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and behaviours, substance use, disordered eating, relational conflict, among other challenges.
EMDR is a highly effective therapy for processing traumatic experiences or unhelpful beliefs that keep us stuck in trauma-time or old patterns. What's interesting about EMDR is that this processing can take place without having to talk through the trauma or experiences in great detail. This is because EMDR is both a top-down (cognitive/talking) and bottom-up (somatic/feeling) therapy.
For more information, you can contact me directly and check out EDMRAA's website.
ERP is a type of cognitive behaviour therapy specifically developed for those living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). ERP involves the intentional but gradual exposure to the thing/s that trigger anxiety and/or compulsions whilst making the choice to regulate emotions and not engage in compulsions.
For more information, you can contact me directly and check out the International OCD Foundation's website.
The SSP is a polyvagal therapy that uses filtered music as the vehicle for delivering cues of safety directly to your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). This passive listening therapy has been designed to help regulate your nervous system so that you can better connect with yourself, others and the world around you. In a similar but different way to EMDR, the SSP is also considered to be a a top-down (cognitive/talking) and bottom-up (somatic/feeling) therapy.
The SSP can be helpful in reducing symptoms and/or challenges associated with depression, anxiety, neurodevelopmental differences such as ADHD and Autism, learning difficulties, sensory processing differences, trauma, and more. Because of the way SSP supports a wider Window of Tolerance, this therapy can be really helpful to incorporate before and/or alongside other therapies including EMDR and parts work.
For more information, you can contact me directly and check out Unyte's website What Is The SSP?
Schema Therapy is a type of cognitive behaviour therapy that compassionately works with the unmet needs that may be sitting underneath our pain and challenges. This is a more structured parts work therapy that brings together attachment theory, early life experiences and how they shape our sense of self (even now), schema patterns (a combo of our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, physical sensations, memories and images), and more.
Parts work is quite a broad term and is actually a feature of many well-known therapies (eg. DBT references 'mind states', Acceptance and Commitment Therapy references 'observing self', Schema Therapy does much further into 'early maladaptive schemas' and 'coping modes' etc.). I have specifically included parts work here because my use of it expands beyond this.
For me, parts work is a therapeutic approach for working with internal conflicts, dissociative states, identity fragmentation, complex but rich inner-worlds, and more. My use of parts work is fluid but grounded in evidence-based and evidence-informed practice, eg. the model of structural-dissociation, neurobiology and polyvagal theory, psychodynamic and ego-state therapy.
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