About Elisa
Elisa Shevlin-Reynolds is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She supports people facing grief, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel usable in everyday life.
In sessions she focuses on listening first and then building practical steps. Clients practice skills for managing strong emotions, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and handling conflict with clearer communication.
Background and approach
She mixes approaches to fit what each person needs rather than offering a single method for everyone. Elisa draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral tools, and client-centered care to create simple, actionable plans. She also uses elements from dialectical behavior strategies and motivational interviewing when they help someone move forward.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person's readiness. Her background in New York includes long-term clinical work with adults dealing with chronic stress, caregiver strain, and the aftermath of abuse. That experience shapes how she supports people through grief, chronic illness, identity questions, and shifts in family roles.
Sessions emphasize small, steady changes that add up over time. People who want clear skills, practical problem solving, and a supportive listener often find this approach helpful. Elisa aims to help clients feel more steady, make values-based choices, and tackle everyday challenges with more confidence.
How Elisa blends approaches for online care
Elisa commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take steps in that direction even when anxiety or fear shows up. ACT focuses on values and actions rather than trying to remove uncomfortable thoughts right away.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced thinking. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and managing day-to-day stress with concrete tools.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Elisa will talk through goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time in collaboration with the client. This helps ensure tools taught in sessions fit a person's real life and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people work face to face for skills practice, phone can be a quicker check-in with less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter exchanges during a busy day, and text messaging allows ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, caregiving, or health challenges.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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