About Elyse
Elyse Vaughn is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship strain. She listens without judgment and aims to make each session clear and useful for daily life.
Elyse uses a collaborative, warm style. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them notice strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions concentrate on practical steps that build confidence and reduce symptoms like panic attacks or persistent worry. She also works with concerns tied to trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment worries, and problems that come from family of origin dynamics. Elyse addresses issues such as communication breakdowns, infidelity, divorce and separation, and feelings of guilt or shame.
She helps people facing isolation, midlife questions, or cultural identity stressors. Across sessions Elyse offers straightforward tools and steady support. Conversations aim to increase clarity about goals and uncover patterns that keep people stuck.
Work often includes short-term skill-building and deeper exploration when needed. Clients can expect a respectful, encouraging presence and practical guidance. Elyse supports those wanting relief from anxiety and renewed confidence in relationships and life choices.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many people find relief using evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Cognitive-focused methods help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach ways to respond differently to worry and panic. These approaches are useful for anxiety, panic attacks, and persistent stress.Methods that address attachment and trauma work with past hurt and current relationship patterns. They help people understand how early experiences shape current reactions and offer steps to repair communication and increase emotional safety in relationships.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Elyse will talk through goals and preferences with each person and adjust methods as needed. Together they decide what feels most helpful and practical for the issues at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for full conversations and visual connection, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit shorter check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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