About Elena
Elena Bauer is a New York psychoanalyst with 24 years of clinical experience. She works with people who face high anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma. Elena also helps clients who are worn down by caregiving and compassion fatigue.
Her work often begins by listening closely to how a person describes their day-to-day feelings. She pays attention to repeated patterns - the ways someone gets stuck or feels unseen.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make those patterns clearer so a person can begin to change them. Elena draws on psychodynamic ideas to trace how past experience shapes current feelings and reactions. She helps people name emotional responses and understand where they come from.
That process can reduce shame, isolation, and the sense of being controlled by moods. For those who have lived in emotionally toxic environments or with a narcissistic partner, she focuses on restoring a sense of self and inner resilience. Work can include looking at abandonment fears, codependency, communication struggles, and difficulties with trust.
Elena speaks English and French and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to suit different schedules and needs. She uses clear, steady inquiry so people can practice new responses outside of sessions.
Psychodynamic and Trauma-Focused Work Online
Elena uses psychodynamic approaches that look at patterns formed in early relationships and how they shape current feelings and behavior. This work helps people notice recurring reactions, name them, and practice different responses to everyday stress and relationship strain.She also draws on trauma-focused therapy to address the effects of abuse, overwhelming events, and prolonged emotional harm. That approach concentrates on the impact of traumatic experiences and helps people reduce the ways those memories and reactions interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Elena will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try and how to pace the work.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to work therapy into busy lives and across time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, French
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