LICENSED THERAPIST IN BOSTON, MA

ERIN MAIDMAN, LCSW

PSYCHOTHERAPIST

My name is Erin, and I’m a Licensed Independent Social Worker and psychotherapist. I work with individuals navigating a wide range of mental health concerns, with a special focus on OCD, anxiety disorders, and complex trauma. My work centers on helping people get unstuck from the cycles, patterns, and environments that keep them from living the lives they want.

My approach to therapy is person-centered, relational, trauma-informed, and deeply collaborative. I believe therapy should be tailored to each individual—to their brain, their values, and their pace. I draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), mindfulness, somatic approaches, relational therapy, and existential-humanistic psychotherapy. Philosophically, my work is influenced by existentialism and attachment theory and grounded in behavioral learning theory and interpersonal neurobiology. I also value a systems-based ecological lens, recognizing that our relationships, environments, and larger social contexts play an important role in our emotional well-being.

I began my clinical work at McLean Hospital’s OCD Institute, where I spent 1.5 years training alongside expert behavioral therapists and supporting individuals in treatment for severe OCD. This experience deeply shaped my clinical identity and taught me how to integrate evidence-based behavioral treatment with compassion, creativity, and trauma-informed care—particularly through combining ACT principles with ERP.

I earned my Master of Social Work from Boston College, where I focused my clinical training on complex trauma and trauma-informed practice. During graduate school, I interned at Doc Wayne Youth Services, providing sports-based individual and group therapy to children and adolescents in Boston Public Schools, and at BayRidge Hospital, where I worked on an inpatient unit supporting individuals during acute mental health crises. These experiences have deepened my appreciation for the resilience people bring to the healing process and the importance of a supportive therapeutic relationship.

After graduate school, I worked as an outpatient clinician specializing in substance use and co-occurring disorders at Riverside Community Care in Lynnfield. I strongly value lifelong learning and regularly engage in supervision, consultation, and advanced training. I have received specialized training in Exposure and Response Prevention, existential-humanistic psychotherapy, the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

I currently work with adults and adolescents experiencing OCD, anxiety disorders, and complex PTSD, including many OCD subtypes such as scrupulosity, harm OCD, and relationship OCD. I’m comfortable supporting individuals living with chronic suicidal ideation and also enjoy working with concerns such as depression, grief and loss, major life transitions, relationship challenges, and identity exploration. I am LGBTQ-affirming, work with many neurodivergent individuals, and am glad to offer lived experience and support to former elite athletes.

Clients would describe me as warm, sincere, and straightforward. I value honesty, transparency, and real collaboration in the therapy room, and I believe the process of therapy is as important as its content. I aim to meet every client exactly where they are—with compassion, curiosity, and no judgment. I know how overwhelming it can feel to live with a loud inner critic or to feel trapped in loops of anxiety, shame, or self-doubt. I believe that my role is to help my clients listen to all parts of themselves with greater clarity and self-compassion, and to support meaningful, lasting change so life can feel more manageable, connected, and fulfilling.

Outside of clinical work, I enjoy playing volleyball, dancing, watching movies, making my wife laugh, and cuddling with my cats.