About Elyse
Elyse Daignault, LICSW, uses practical, down-to-earth therapy to help people manage stress and anxiety. She keeps sessions straightforward and honest, mixing moments of levity with serious work. Her style is direct and focused on real-life problems a person brings to the room.
She draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking, Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address difficult feelings, and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events still cause distress.
Background and approach
Elyse leans toward interventions that produce visible change in day-to-day life. She often helps people who are dealing with depression, mood disorders, panic, obsessive concerns, and grief. Over a 24-year career she has worked in a range of settings and with many different concerns.
That experience includes supporting people who have struggled with self-harm, multiple suicide attempts, personality disorder presentations, addiction, and complex trauma. She has also supported people from LGBT communities and those facing relationship or parenting strains. In sessions Elyse aims to be practical and straightforward.
Conversations focus on current problems, coping skills, and clearer emotional understanding. She helps people build tools for sleeping, managing panic, reducing compulsive behaviors, and improving self-esteem. Elyse works from Massachusetts and offers online options for people living elsewhere.
She speaks English and draws on direct clinical experience to match strategies to each person’s needs and goals.
Using CBT, EFT, and Trauma-Focused Work Online
Many online sessions draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, sleep problems, and compulsive habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift strong emotions that get in the way of connections and intimacy. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the effects of past traumatic events and teaches skills to reduce ongoing distress and triggers.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences before settling on strategies. Adjustments happen as therapy progresses so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face work for skill practice and emotion-focused conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer an option for brief updates, journaling-style check-ins, or follow-up between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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