Honey Bee Therapy

online therapy for millennials and gen z in Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland

Erin Stanley, LCSW, LICSW

Virginia | Washington, DC | Maryland

bell hooks quote living without change is not living at all

“Living without change is not living at all.”

— bell hooks

Feel better about your relationship with your loved ones, your work, and yourself.

Take a moment to think about the relationships in your life. How’s your relationship with your mom? Your partner? Your boss? Your child? Your habits? Your drinking? Your Instagram account? Yourself?

Are you satisfied with how you show up in all of these relationships?

Maybe you recognize that the romantic relationships you enter tend to repeat cycles. You attract the same partner over and over again, oftentimes feeling rejected, confused, or disappointed by their behaviors. You wonder what that means about you.

Or perhaps you are struggling to separate your work self from your home self, and find those lines more and more blurred as you work from home. Outwardly, things appear fine. You’re getting by with keeping up appearances, doing your laundry, and checking in with your friends. You’ve always been a deep thinker who thinks a couple of steps ahead. But inside, you’re anxious and tired, yet find it difficult to sleep at night because something is off. You don’t feel so in control after all.

As you have gotten older you see a change in your family dynamic and think about your role in the family as it was and how it currently stands. Your responsibilities have changed, and it feels…weird. You have to take care of more financially, physically, and emotionally, and you weren’t ready for all it. These new expectations came out of nowhere, and it’s becoming difficult to manage, especially when you feel like your own stuff isn’t together.

You’ve been encouraged to seek therapy, but you brush it off, telling yourself you’re fine, things aren’t that bad, nothing is really “wrong.” But is everything truly okay? Could you lighten the load talking to someone?

If any of the above resonates with you, welcome to Honey Bee Therapy. I am so glad you’re here. I invite you to keep reading.

Welcome to Honey Bee Therapy.

Let’s work together.

Click the button below to schedule a 20-minute complimentary consultation call.

Wayne W. Dyer Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”


— Maya Angelou

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

-Wayne W. Dyer

Hi, I’m Erin Stanley.

Founder + Therapist at Honey Bee Therapy.



I work with individual people, helping them to understand the reality of their relationships. Relationships are in all that we do, every single day. For many people, from the time we wake up in the morning until the time we close our eyes, we are interacting with others, whether in person or through a screen. Even in our dreams we are often not alone. So although we may sometimes want to, we cannot separate ourselves from others - it’s antithetical to who we inherently are.

At the same time, people can be a lot to deal with (and can really get on your f*cking nerves). This is due to the complex nature of managing your emotions while simultaneously acknowledging the feelings of others. Over the past nine years, I’ve worked with children, teenagers, families, and individual adults to help them build stronger relationships with themselves and others. Through this work I’ve learned the importance of cultivating a strong sense of self and self-compassion in order to show up as your highest self in these varying relationships.

I’ve also navigated my own relationships and their complexities, and had the privilege to bear witness to all different types of people as they clarify their own relationships and work towards healing.

In our work together we will utilize a variety of strategies and activities to unpack the confusing feelings that are associated with different relationships. Feelings such as guilt, shame, embarrassment, irritation, anger, sadness (and so so many more). We will dig into your most important relationship (the one with yourself) and how that has an impact on relationships with other people and systems. We will map out how to shed old ways of being and habits that don’t fit you anymore so that you can feel empowered, whole, and well.

Click here to learn more about me.

Honey Bee Therapy is a 100% online therapy practice. I offer morning, afternoon, and evening appointments for folks who work from home, or have a hybrid schedule and would like to have therapy on days they’re not in the office. I am licensed in Virginia, Washington DC, and Maryland, so we can work together if you live in the nation’s capital, Richmond, Charlottesville, Alexandria, Arlington, the 757, PG County, Silver Spring, Hyattsville, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, or anywhere in between.

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