About Elisa
Elisa Carlino welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship or intimacy concerns, and parenting challenges. She helps those navigating ADHD, trauma and abuse, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Elisa is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in New York who speaks English and Italian.
Elisa uses straightforward, practical techniques in sessions. She blends cognitive behavioral strategies with mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to help people notice thoughts, try small experiments, and make changes that fit their lives.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to attachment patterns and how early relationships affect current worries. Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She aims to be a steady, supportive guide who explains tools in simple language.
Sessions often include clear goals, short exercises to practice between meetings, and check-ins on what’s working. Elisa’s 12 years of experience include work in clinics, hospitals, schools, and online settings. She has supported parents, young professionals, and people facing medical or caregiving stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and life transitions.
The combination of clinical work and coaching helps her focus on both coping skills and practical next steps. People can expect a collaborative approach that mixes talk, behavioral tasks, and mindfulness practices. Elisa helps people build skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and handling chronic challenges like pain or illness.
She accepts international clients and offers sessions in English and Italian.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Elisa uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes short experiments and homework tasks that fit well into video or text-based work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and taking small actions toward a meaningful life while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings; it pairs well with mindfulness exercises and written reflections between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Elisa will discuss goals, preferences, and how you like to work, then suggest techniques to try. That might mean combining CBT tasks, ACT exercises, and attachment-focused conversations to match your needs and pace.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or caregiving responsibilities. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief coaching-style support, quick check-ins, or practicing skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Italian