Areas of Interest: 
-LGBTQ+ clients
-Couples & intimate relationships
-Trauma

Modalities: 
-Emotion-focused (including EFT for couples)
-Experiential
-Attachment-based
-Trauma-focused

Dr. Erin Cooper, Phd, LMFTA
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate

Accepting New Clients ​

​Available for In-person and Teletherapy

​In a world that makes it easy to disconnect from ourselves and from each other, Erin is passionate about helping people live more fully—embodied, authentic, and rooted in love and community. 

Originally from rural Tennessee, Erin moved to Auburn nearly a decade ago to pursue her master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Auburn University, followed by a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family science. Her early clinical work was primarily with adolescents and their families in rural Alabama with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, trauma, and parent-child relationships. 

Inspired by her clinical work, her doctoral research focused on the link between childhood adversity and intimate relationships among couples in Alabama. Today, she specializes in helping clients heal from childhood trauma and strengthen their most important connections. 

As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, Erin is committed to creating a space where queer clients feel safe, affirmed, and empowered to embrace their identities. She affirms all queer identities and consensual relationship structures, honoring each person’s right to love and connect in ways that are true to them. 

Erin primarily uses emotion focused, mindfulness-based, and attachment-based approaches. Her approach also recognizes that emotional wellness is influenced not only by personal history, but also by broader social and structural contexts. 

Through compassion and collaboration, Erin creates a therapy environment characterized by both emotional safety and courageous vulnerability. Erin helps clients better understand how their bodies respond to relational stress, how old survival strategies may no longer serve them, and how to build new patterns that will help them achieve their goals.

Outside of work, she enjoys spending her time exercising, practicing yoga, volunteering for her community, and spending time with her partner and their 2 pets.​

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