About Elena
Dr. Elena Felipe-Valera helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship strain, and challenges tied to health or caregiving. She is a licensed clinical social worker and brings a practical, goal-focused style to sessions.
Elena speaks English and Spanish and works with people across different backgrounds and life stages. Her approach is direct and collaborative. She listens first, then helps set clear short-term goals.
Sessions often combine talking about what is most pressing with simple strategies to manage symptoms and move forward.
Background and approach
Elena uses a mix of methods to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered work to follow the client's lead, narrative ideas to reframe difficult stories, and EMDR for trauma-related memories. She also integrates solution-focused techniques to build on strengths and achieve concrete changes.
With 23 years of experience, Elena has worked with people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, bereavement, and the impacts of violence or disaster. She also supports concerns such as ADHD, self-esteem, sexuality, midlife shifts, and career stress. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, so people can choose what fits their schedule.
Elena aims to help clients find small, manageable steps that lead to clearer choices and better day-to-day functioning.
How Elena’s Methods Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities. In practice she helps people name their concerns and guides sessions around what matters most to them. Narrative therapy works by helping people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their experiences, which can reduce shame and open new options. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, addresses distressing memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation to reduce the memory’s emotional charge.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Elena will discuss different methods and collaborate with each person to decide which fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. That choice can change as therapy progresses and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls enable face-to-face interaction and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or health care appointments without added travel time.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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