About Elissa
Elissa Olson is a licensed mental health professional in Nebraska with 17 years of experience. She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings supporting people with persistent mental health and substance use concerns. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion and tailors sessions to individual needs.
Her work often focuses on anxiety along with depression, trauma, and addictions. She also helps with stress, grief, relationship concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Elissa commonly addresses sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, career stress, and challenges related to ADHD or bipolar disorder. She draws on several therapy approaches to fit what a person needs. Sessions emphasize open listening and practical strategies that people can try between meetings.
Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented when useful, and space is made for feeling heard. Elissa has experience with attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, abandonment concerns, and blended family dynamics. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image, and intimacy-related questions.
Her background includes work with a wide range of backgrounds and identities. People who are looking for steady, experienced support may find her style helpful. She aims to empower clients to make manageable changes and to build routines that reduce overwhelm.
To begin, a short matching process helps connect people and set initial goals.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It helps when someone needs understanding, validation, and a place to sort through feelings before trying new strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical tools to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, combines skills training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help manage intense emotions and reduce self-destructive patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. From there she tailors which methods to emphasize and adjusts the plan as needs change in collaboration with the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or travel constraints. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when video is difficult, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or to work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into real life while using approaches like CBT or DBT in ways that match each person's routine.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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