About Elisa
Elisa Carlino is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for worries about work, parenting, grief, and life changes. Elisa uses clear, practical strategies and a warm, friendly manner to make hard conversations easier.
She draws on 12 years of experience across clinics, hospitals, and schools. That background shapes how she helps people build tools they can use every day. Sessions focus on simple skills for managing mood, attention, and relationships, plus steps to handle trauma and burnout.
Background and approach
Elisa blends several approaches to fit each person’s needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and increase meaningful action. Attachment-based ideas and mindfulness practices help with connection and emotional regulation.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She talks through goals with each person and teaches practical exercises to try between sessions. The emphasis is on small, achievable changes rather than quick fixes.
Elisa is based in New York and offers services in English and Italian. She also works with international clients. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging, making it easier to fit care into a busy schedule.
Therapeutic methods and online sessions that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match your values. This approach can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation by shifting focus to meaningful steps forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches practical exercises to reduce worry and improve mood over time.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. From that conversation a plan is built together and adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face work when possible. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, coaching-style work, or days when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady, practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Italian
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