About Elaine
Elaine Gilmartin is a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of professional experience. She practices in New York and focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Elaine aims to make the first step feel manageable and respects the courage it takes to begin therapy.
She works in a calm, nonjudgmental way so people can speak about difficult things. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Elaine listens for the patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different ways of coping. Her work includes supporting those facing trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and issues around eating and self-esteem. She also offers help around family conflict, coping with life changes, and panic or social anxiety.
Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care, fertility concerns, aging and geriatric issues, hoarding, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and postpartum depression. Elaine blends evidence-based therapeutic techniques with straightforward, usable tools. Conversations are collaborative - she helps people sort priorities and test small changes between sessions.
The goal is to build skills that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. People meet with Elaine for a mixture of short-term problem solving and longer-term work when deeper patterns need attention. She communicates in plain language and helps create steps clients can use right away.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Elaine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and coping strategies. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression. This helps people manage daily worries and low mood with concrete steps.Another approach centers on building coping skills and emotional regulation after trauma or intense stress. It teaches simple techniques to manage panic, reduce overwhelm, and gradually face difficult memories or situations when the client is ready.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elaine collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they try methods, track what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, progress notes, and ongoing coaching between scheduled sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, California, Maine
- Languages
- English