About Elena
Elena Ramos is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at people who want clear guidance and steady support.
Elena draws on eight years of experience across schools, outpatient settings, and domestic violence services in New Mexico. She has worked with adults facing self-harm thoughts, trauma, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She emphasizes listening first and making space for each person’s experience. In sessions she uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, and client-centered care. She helps people notice patterns, try small experiments, and build habits that reduce overwhelm.
She also uses relationship-focused methods for communication and connection issues. Her approach is collaborative. Elena treats the person sitting across from her as the expert on their life and brings practical strategies to support goals.
Sessions aim to build skills people can use between meetings, not just talk about problems. Elena works with concerns including parenting, ADHD, anger, self-esteem, grief over life changes, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with loneliness, guilt, body image, and blended family challenges.
Her approach is steady, respectful, and focused on real-world change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elena often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify values and take small steps toward a meaningful life even when painful thoughts or feelings are present. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test different ways of responding to stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is another tool she draws on for relationship and communication problems, helping partners and individuals notice and respond to emotions more effectively.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elena will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, making therapy a collaborative process.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English