About Elaine
Elaine Gilmartin is a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of practice helping people manage stress and anxiety. She is based in New York and brings practical support for everyday problems. Her approach aims to make first steps less overwhelming for people who are worried about reaching out.
Elaine focuses on common concerns such as depression, relationship strain, and coping with life changes. She also addresses trauma and abuse, parenting questions, eating concerns, and self-esteem issues.
Background and approach
Additional areas of attention include adoption and foster care, fertility and postpartum issues, aging and geriatric challenges, hoarding, and end-of-life counseling. In sessions she prioritizes an open, nonjudgmental space where people can speak freely about thoughts and feelings. Conversations are practical and straightforward, aimed at helping clients find workable steps for their day-to-day lives.
She listens for what matters most and helps people set small goals they can try between sessions. Elaine has ten years of clinical experience and holds the LCSW credential, which is listed as ME LCSW and CA LCSW in her documentation. Her background includes supporting people through panic attacks, social anxiety and phobia, and post-traumatic stress concerns.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide care. People who want a calm, steady partner for untangling stress and anxiety often find her style accessible. The first meeting is used to understand immediate needs and to plan practical steps.
Elaine encourages taking the next small step toward support.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Elaine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in ways that translate well to remote care. One approach focuses on short-term skills for managing anxiety and panic symptoms, teaching breathing techniques, grounding exercises, and step-by-step coping plans that can be practiced between sessions. Another common strand emphasizes working through trauma and post-traumatic stress with gradual exposure to feared memories and learning new ways to respond to triggers.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Elaine will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit those priorities. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what is helping and what feels manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes between sessions or use brief check-ins during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, California, Maine
- Languages
- English
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