About Elina
Elina Malamud is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage anxiety and stress. She practices from New York and works in English and Russian. Her approach centers on clear, practical steps that people can use right away.
Clients often come when life feels overwhelming or when big transitions make daily tasks harder. She helps people who are adjusting to becoming a parent, changing jobs, moving countries, or coping with illness.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills and restoring steadier moods. In the room she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify personal values and take small actions toward them.
Client-centered work grounds sessions in what matters most to the individual. Her practice addresses a broad range of concerns including relationships, self-esteem, grief, trauma and addiction-related problems. She also supports people facing social anxiety, postpartum challenges, career stress, and life-purpose questions.
Practical homework and short-term skill building are often part of the plan. Elina explains techniques plainly and breaks tasks into manageable steps. She helps people set realistic goals and track small changes over time.
The aim is to increase confidence so daily life feels more manageable and meaningful.
Approaches that guide online work
Elina draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and replace them with practical alternatives. CBT is useful for sleep problems, social anxiety, unwanted habits, and low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to clarify what matters to each person and support small, value-driven steps even when emotions are intense. ACT can help with living through uncertainty and building psychological flexibility.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elina collaborates with clients to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time, combining techniques as needed so the work matches each person's pace and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers a near face-to-face feel for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, unfolding thoughts between sessions, or practicing new skills in the moment. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English, Russian
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