About Elisa
Elisa Mantel-Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience supporting people through stress and anxiety. She practices in New York and uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help clients manage worry, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She meets people where they are and focuses on what is most helpful right now.
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. Elisa listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients try small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with health and fertility concerns, loss, and caregiving stress. That experience informs how she approaches issues like trauma, addiction, eating and body image concerns, and attention-related challenges. Elisa draws on casework from community and clinical settings to guide practical steps in therapy.
Her methods include client-centered work that follows the client’s lead, cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and trauma-focused approaches when past events are affecting day-to-day life. She also uses solution-focused tactics to build momentum and emotionally-focused ideas for relationship concerns. Sessions are offered in English by phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
How Elisa’s Approach Translates to Online Therapy
Elisa combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and trauma-focused techniques to address anxiety, stress, and life changes. Client-centered therapy means the conversation follows what matters most to the person in the room and sessions are paced to their needs. Cognitive behavioral ideas focus on spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and patterns and trying small changes in behavior. Trauma-focused work helps process past events when those experiences are contributing to current distress and interruptions in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elisa partners with each person to decide which methods to try first, based on goals, symptoms, and what feels most useful. That collaborative decision making helps shape a plan that can change over time as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video is useful for a more personal, face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can be a quick way to check in or keep momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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