About Eli
Eli Selkin is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on 18 years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, bipolar disorder, and depression. Eli writes treatment plans to fit each person and aims to create a calm, respectful space for steady progress. They bring a compassionate, straightforward style to conversations about life changes and emotional strain.
In sessions Eli focuses on practical steps you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
They use approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and next steps. Motivational interviewing helps when change feels difficult, and psychodynamic ideas can illuminate patterns from earlier relationships. Eli has worked in California settings across a wide range of issues.
They help people dealing with compassion fatigue, addictions, and career stress. There is also experience supporting people facing adoption and foster care concerns, aging and geriatric issues, hoarding, and end-of-life matters. Other focus areas include avoidant personality patterns, personality disorders, polyamory and non-monogamous relationship questions, and challenges common to young adults.
Eli adapts methods to the real-life needs of each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are offered in English and Eli sees clients in California as well as people in other places when that fits. The initial step is a short matching questionnaire to help pair a person with the approach and format that will work best.
How Eli's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on what matters most to them. It teaches simple practices to accept sensations and move toward chosen values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers concrete tools to test and change unhelpful habits. These skills are often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Motivational Interviewing is a short, collaborative way to address ambivalence about change and boost a person's own reasons for taking steps forward.
Finding the right combination of these approaches is part of the work. Eli treats that as a team effort and will adjust methods based on each person's goals, preferences, and what feels useful in early sessions. The plan can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy with Eli is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication styles. Video calls allow in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker way to check in, and text messaging supports short updates or reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or travel commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English