About Elias
Elias Gootzeit is a licensed clinical social worker with forty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. He works with individuals facing life transitions, parenting strain, anger, and the emotional fallout of separation or loss. Elias speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Clients can expect a calm, nonreligious approach that aims to reduce distress and build coping skills. Sessions emphasize understanding feelings, improving emotional regulation, and finding small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
The work often includes talking through past hurts and learning ways to respond differently to triggers. His practice addresses issues like attachment concerns, abandonment, caregiver stress, guilt, shame, and isolation. Elias also supports people coping with post-traumatic stress, domestic violence aftermath, and recovery after natural or human-caused disasters.
He pays attention to behavior patterns and relationships that keep problems going. Over decades in New York, Elias has helped many adults, including young adults, navigate divorce and separation and sort out life purpose questions. He draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide interventions and to teach emotional skills.
His background includes a Master of Social Work from Fordham University and a New York LCSW-R license. Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. Elias helps clients set goals, try new coping methods, and evaluate what is working.
He frames therapy as a step-by-step process toward clearer thinking and better emotional balance.
Evidence-based approaches and online therapy options
Many of the techniques Elias uses come from evidence-based therapeutic approaches that focus on practical change. One common method helps people learn emotional regulation and coping skills through structured practice and feedback; this can ease anxiety, anger, and mood swings. Another approach looks at how past attachment wounds affect current relationships and helps people develop different patterns of relating and trust. Both approaches involve clear, teachable skills and real-life practice tailored to each person's situation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elias partners with clients to identify goals and then tests methods to see what fits best. He adjusts strategies over time based on what the client reports and how daily life changes, so the process is collaborative and adaptive.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports shorter reflections or ongoing tracking between sessions. These formats make it possible to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions into work, caregiving, or school routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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