About Salisa
Salisa Garrand is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, or coping with depression. Her work also supports people dealing with trauma and maternal mental health concerns.
Salisa values a calm, supportive space where people can talk through hard experiences. She believes clients know their own stories and brings a gentle, strengths-focused stance to sessions. Her background includes four years of professional experience as a New York LMHC.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses practical, evidence-based techniques to build coping skills and reduce distress. She pays particular attention to trauma and attachment-related struggles, including feelings of abandonment, isolation, and shame. She also addresses panic, postpartum depression, and challenges around pregnancy and childbirth.
Salisa helps people handle relationship difficulties such as communication problems, infidelity, divorce and separation, and family conflict. She also works with self-harm thoughts, low self-esteem, and the sense of emptiness that can follow major life changes. Her approach is trauma-informed and aims to strengthen resilience.
She frames therapy as a partnership. Together with each person she identifies goals and steps that feel doable. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through a range of online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Salisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on trauma and anxiety. Trauma-informed care means recognizing how past hurt can affect daily life and using steady, paced conversations and exercises to reduce overwhelm and build safety. This approach helps with post-traumatic stress, feelings of abandonment, and chronic anxiety.She also works with skills-based methods that teach concrete tools for managing panic, stress, and low mood. These techniques include breathing and grounding practices, behavioral strategies to reduce avoidance, and short exercises to improve mood and day-to-day functioning. People use these tools between sessions to notice small improvements.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client will review needs, goals, and preferences and choose methods that fit the person and their life. That collaborative process can shift over time as goals change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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