About Elanna
Elanna Wilson-Guzman is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Ohio and Nevada. She holds the Licensed Independent Social Worker credential and the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and brings ten years of professional experience to her work. She has focused much of her practice on stress and anxiety along with mood and trauma-related concerns.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She treats people with respect and sensitivity and adapts conversations to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what matters most to the client rather than a fixed script. Elanna helps people cope with relationship strains, family conflicts, grief, and issues that follow trauma or abuse. She also supports clients facing addiction, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and major life changes.
Practical coping skills and clear next steps are often part of her sessions. She has experience addressing intimacy concerns, self-esteem struggles, anger, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care matters, blended family issues, cancer-related stress, and challenges after divorce or separation.
She can work with people managing co-occurring conditions and complicated mood presentations. Elanna encourages small, steady steps toward change. She tailors a plan together with each person and adjusts it as progress or new issues arise.
If someone is nervous about starting, she acknowledges that first steps take courage and aims to make the process easier.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elanna uses evidence-based techniques to guide sessions in practical ways. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for stress and anxiety through breathing, grounding, and activity planning; this helps reduce overwhelmed feelings and supports day-to-day functioning. Another approach centers on processing trauma and abuse at a manageable pace, helping people name what happened, reduce its hold on daily life, and strengthen safety and trust in relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adjust methods as needed. That way the plan stays aligned with real-life needs and changes over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels most helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or an option for shorter, focused communication. These formats make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to continue work when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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