I’m a Massachusetts Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist, and Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher. I’ve long been interested in how we relate to ourselves, one another, and the environments around us.
As a two-time cancer survivor, my life experience has shaped how I think about uncertainty, personal agency, the present moment, the body, and mortality.
As a mental health counselor and dance/movement therapist, my work experience has deepened my curiosity about what becomes possible when movement, mindfulness, creativity, ritual, and connection to place become part of everyday life—not just something reserved for a therapy room, studio, or retreat.
Erin Tower, LMHC, BC-DMT, CYT
Founder, Cascade Counseling & Wellness
Experiential practices grounded in movement, mindfulness, ritual, and connection to place
Professional Background
I have worked with individuals, families, and community groups across the full lifespan—from supporting a family with 25-week premature twins to working with a 107-year-old in long-term care.
I earned my master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Expressive Therapy with a specialization in Dance/Movement Therapy from Lesley University in 2008. My clinical background includes early intervention; psychiatric and eating-disorder treatment; geriatric care involving rehabilitation, chronic illness, loss, and end-of-life decision-making; and private practice focused primarily on anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life transitions. My professional roles have included counselor, group facilitator, clinical supervisor, assistant team leader, and program consultant.
My approach has been shaped by the expressive therapies, humanistic and attachment-based perspectives, movement- and body-based techniques, mindfulness, and an interest in how the nervous system and our surroundings shape how we perceive, respond, and relate. Across clinical, home, community, and outdoor settings, I have gravitated toward practices that use movement, creativity, ritual, observation, and relationship to deepen attention, connection, and well-being.
What Shapes My Work
Movement, Mindfulness & Place
My work explores how movement, attention, relationships, ritual, and environment shape how we feel and move through daily life.
I’m especially interested in simple practices—such as noticing bodily cues, experimenting with new ways and rhythms of moving, paying closer attention to the natural world, and returning intentionally to meaningful rituals—that can help us recognize familiar patterns and respond with greater flexibility and choice.
Rather than separating mind, body, relationships, and place, I see them as interconnected and reciprocal—each continually shaping and being shaped by the others.
Guardians of Isadora on Singing Beach, MA
Led by Dicki Johnson Macy, PhD, Boston Children’s Foundation
Perched Above the Corridor
Skyline Sanctuary, Boston, MA
Perched Above the Corridor is my long-term, place-based urban nature photojournal centered on Boston’s Southwest Corridor Park. Through repeated observation from three connected rooftop spaces, I document how the rooftop, the Corridor, the city, and the life moving through them change and interact over time.
At its center is a simple question: What can be discovered by patiently observing one place over many years?
Perched remains its own documentary project, while its practice of sustained attention and reciprocity—Looking Upwards, Looking Outwards, Looking Deeper—informs Cascade’s evolving work.
Origins of Cascade
Wiesendanger Falls, Columbia River Gorge, OR
Cascade Counseling & Wellness takes its name from moving water: responsive to the landscape, flexible enough to change course, and strong enough to shape new paths over time.
The name also reflects how I think about learning. We build foundational skills, carry them into new situations, and let small shifts in how we think, notice, move, relate, and respond accumulate—much as the steady strength of cascading water, sustained over time, gradually reshapes the rock beneath it.
Flow, adaptation, and meaningful change remain central even as Cascade settles into a new channel.
Get in Touch
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