About Erin Barr

Erin Barr is one of the most experienced and sought-after therapists at MyLife Counselling, bringing over 20 years of compassionate, skilled care to children, teens, and adults. Since joining the MyLife team in 2020, Erin has earned a reputation for her rare ability to meet clients exactly where they are, whether they’re a child struggling with anxiety, an adult navigating a major life shift, or a survivor working through the impacts of abuse and trauma.

Sexual Assault, Abuse, and Complex Trauma

Healing from sexual, emotional, or physical abuse, whether it happened in childhood or more recently takes more than time. It takes the right support. Erin began her career as a Sexual Assault Counsellor at the Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault in Illinois. After relocating to Canada, she continued this vital work at Haldimand & Norfolk Women’s Services in Simcoe, Ontario.

Erin believes trauma therapy isn’t about erasing the past but changing its power over your present. Using trauma-informed approaches, she can help you process the sadness, anger, and shame that you might be struggling with while also helping you rebuild trusting relationships in your life. Erin always works at your pace to help you reclaim your voice, overcome painful memories, and feel safe again.

Life Transitions & Adjustment

Change, even positive change, can shake us to our core. As someone in midlife who has personally navigated many of these profound shifts, Erin brings a powerful blend of clinical expertise and authentic lived experience to her work with adults. She has a deep passion for supporting clients through the transitions which quietly upend everything: from becoming a new parent, to parenting teenagers, to becoming an empty nester, entering perimenopause, leaving university, shifting careers, or stepping into an entirely new role. She understands firsthand how these moments can bring grief, confusion, and complex identity questions that are hard to name, let alone carry alone. Erin can help you make sense of what you’re feeling, reconnect with your values, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Children’s Issues – Anxiety, Emotional Regulation, Family Conflict, Sexual Abuse (8+)

If your child is struggling, you don’t have to figure it out alone, and neither do they. Drawing on two decades of clinical experience, training in attachment theory and DBT, and her personal journey raising two children, Erin deeply understands how challenges such as bullying, divorce, family conflict, social media, and identity questions can impact a youth’s entire world. As both a clinician and a parent, she knows how to spot and treat these struggles across all environments. She helps families address issues like emotional outbursts or withdrawal at home, negative thinking, low self-esteem, feeling isolated, or peer conflicts in their social lives. These challenges affect the whole family, Erin partners with parents to create an engaging space where youth (8+) can process big emotions and build resilience. She offers validating, judgment-free guidance from someone who has truly been in your shoes.

Personal Background

Outside the therapy room, Erin is a curious, warm-hearted adventurer with a deep love for family, culture, and connection. She and her family have explored destinations across the globe — from Vietnam and Brazil to Greece, which holds a special place in her heart. Erin believes in experiencing a place fully, which always means eating like a local. Back home, she volunteers at her local humane society, dotes on her cats, and jokes that running a cat rescue would have been a very real career contender. When warmer months arrive, you’ll find her outside and on the move. These passions for exploration, compassion, and connection are ones she brings into the therapy room every day.