Erin Carney, Ph.D.

 

About Erin - Nashville Psychologist

Erin is a licensed psychologist who values working with individuals, couples, and families impacted by suicidal thoughts and commonly associated concerns, such as depression, anxiety, self-injury, psychosis, mania, post-traumatic stress, and identity-related stress (gender, sexual orientation, ethnic/racial).

Her clinical and research experiences have focused on suicide and self-injury throughout the lifespan (early teens thru late adulthood). She has worked with clients across the continuum of care, including outpatient clinics for university students and veterans, intensive outpatient programs, and inpatient psychiatric units.

If you are looking for a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and multicultural approach in therapy, you and Erin will be a good fit. With individual clients, she tends to use mindfulness-based approaches (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy - ACT; Dialectical Behavior Therapy - DBT). She also has specialty training in suicide focused interventions (Collaborative Assessment & Management of Suicidality - CAMS; Cognitive Therapy for Suicide) and trauma-focused interventions (ACT for Trauma; Cognitive Processing Therapy - CPT). 

With couples, Erin uses the Gottman method to support you and your partner's ability to reconnect, communicate, and resolve conflict in a healthier way. With families, she uses Attachment Based Therapy to repair relationships that have been impacted by your teen/young adult's depression, suicide attempt, gender identity, and/or sexual orientation.

Background and Training

On a personal note, Erin grew up in a military family that moved several times before settling in the midwest. She went on to earn her B.S. in Neuroscience from The University of Michigan, her Master of Science in Clinical Psychological Science from Western Kentucky University, and Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Tennessee State University. As a result of this background and training, Erin has been exposed to a wide range of cultures and belief systems, and she welcomes therapy clients with a myriad of worldviews. Ultimately you can expect her to blend the nerdy science of psychology with humility and humor to support you in building a more meaningful life.

Questions for Erin

  • Mindfulness is the antidote to avoidance. It's very human to not want to feel sadness, disappointment, anxiety or any of those other unpleasant emotions, and we will desperately try whatever we can to stop, get rid of, or fix those emotions-- no matter the cost to us. Mindfulness helps us to turn toward pain, pleasure, and everything in between, allowing us to get trapped in the cycle of avoidance less often.

  • I come from a background of being a high achiever who prioritized high achievement and socialized only with other high achievers. When suicide touched my life in a number of ways, however, my values drastically changed. Mindfulness was a valuable tool for navigating questions related to meaning and purpose, and I ultimately re-routed my professional journey towards a career that would allow me to help others do the same.

  • "Accustomed to living in a place where there is no mercy, we may dread falling short and failing, not realizing that falling into our inner space of healing is what we need to do." -Larry Ward, PhD

    I use mindfulness to help clients build awareness of the rigid rules to which they've been holding themselves and the cost of continuing to live this way. Together we explore how psychological flexibility can help them make progress towards life goals in a less costly way than self-criticism and avoidance.

Logistics

  • Individual session fee - $165 for 50-minute appointment.

    Couples session fee - $185 for 75-minute appointment.

    Family session fee - $185 for 75-minute appointment.

  • Licensed psychologist, health service provider (Tennessee #3793)

    Certified to practice therapy by telehealth in states participating in the PSYPACT agreement

  • Email: Erin@mindfulnashville.com

    Phone: 615-431-1789