About Elissa
Elissa Baker is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of experience based in Colorado. She offers calm, direct support for people coping with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. Elissa creates an affirming space for clients who identify as LGBTQ and for those sorting through relationship and attachment concerns.
Her work focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns in communication and behavior, and then practices new ways of relating and coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward skills and reflective conversation tailored to each person’s needs. Elissa pays attention to life transitions and identity questions. She supports people facing issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, body image worries, caregiving strain, and recovery from substance use.
She also helps with decision points such as commitment questions, divorce or separation, and exploring polyamory or non-monogamous relationships. Her style is collaborative and respectful. She encourages clear goals, small experiments, and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
People who value direct feedback and a compassionate listening stance tend to find her approach useful. Elissa offers several online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Elissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life change. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for anxiety and stress management, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes to reduce overwhelm and increase daily functioning. Another strand focuses on attachment and relationship patterns, helping people map how past relationships influence current reactions and practice new ways of communicating.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist and client look at goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try strategies together and adjust as needed. Elissa frames therapy as teamwork where experiments and feedback guide the plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and work well for short check-ins, and live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer written check-ins or need support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work even when travel or time constraints arise.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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