About Elisa
Elisa Yamonaco is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, and depression. She supports those facing career challenges, life transitions, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and burnout. Her approach is warm and respectful and aims to empower people to make change.
Elisa keeps conversations straightforward and personal. She listens first, then tailors a plan to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on realistic steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
She emphasizes practical skills that can be used between meetings. Her work blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and solution-focused techniques to set clear goals.
These methods are used to address panic, social anxiety, low mood, and problems with communication and shame. With five years of experience as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Elisa brings steady clinical practice in a range of concerns. She aims to make therapy feel doable, not overwhelming, and coaches people through small, measurable shifts.
People who need help with anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD, or relationship stress can expect concrete strategies and calm support. Sessions are offered in English and are available via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Elisa works collaboratively to adapt techniques to each person’s daily routine and goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Elisa commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people online. Client-centered therapy means she focuses on listening carefully and building a trusting conversation. That approach helps when someone needs acceptance, a sounding board, and space to clarify feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, involves looking at thoughts and behaviors and trying small experiments to reduce anxiety or low mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotion regulation or intense reactions are a problem. DBT skills teach practical strategies for calming down, tolerating distress, and improving emotional balance. Together these approaches give a mix of supportive listening and hands-on skills training, and Elisa will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can help maintain momentum between longer sessions and make it easier to share updates or practice new skills on the go.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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