About Elaine
Elaine Antin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, grief, and life transitions. She practices in Wisconsin and offers a calm, nonjudgmental approach that focuses on practical coping skills.
Elaine emphasizes respect and honesty in sessions and aims to help people feel more in control of their day-to-day life. She draws on a mix of evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, client-centered work, dialectical behavior ideas, Jungian concepts, and mindfulness practices.
Background and approach
That blend lets her tailor sessions to the needs of each person rather than use a single fixed approach. Sessions often focus on learning new coping tools and practicing them between meetings. Elaine’s background includes work in both public and personal hospitals and smaller community agencies.
Over the years she has supported people living with mood disorders, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and other complex concerns. She describes her style as open, grounded, and sometimes warm enough to laugh with clients when it feels right. In session she centers the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change.
She aims to build trust and create a respectful space where people can try out different strategies. Many sessions include skill teaching, problem solving, and check-ins on progress between meetings. Elaine accepts clients from within the United States and internationally.
Sessions can address a wide range of concerns such as sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, family of origin issues, and trauma-related difficulties.
How Elaine’s Approaches Work Online
Elaine uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also uses client-centered methods that focus on listening closely and shaping sessions around each person's priorities and pace. These approaches work well for problems like stress, sleep difficulties, grief, and coping with change.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Elaine will talk with each person about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan over time. That way the work matches what matters most to the person in therapy and fits their day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. People can choose video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is difficult, live chat for shorter check-ins, or text-based messaging for ongoing support between appointments. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs and let people practice skills in their own routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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