About Elisa
Elisa Shevlin-Reynolds is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting worries, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more able to cope. Her work often addresses self-esteem, anger, career concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Elisa aims for a calm, respectful tone in sessions.
Background and approach
She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. From there she offers clear options and skills to try, then adjusts what she does based on what helps. Therapy with her is meant to be collaborative and down-to-earth.
Her background combines long clinical experience with a client-centered outlook. She uses a mix of approaches drawn from cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance-based work, dialectical behavior strategies, and motivational interviewing. Those methods are used to help people change unhelpful patterns and tolerate difficult feelings.
Elisa also pays attention to life transitions and caregiving stresses. She supports people facing chronic illness, aging concerns, blended family challenges, and divorce or separation. She can help with attachment or abandonment issues and with problems around commitment and communication.
Sessions are offered in English and designed to fit into busy lives. Elisa works with clear goals, homework when helpful, and practical problem-solving. Her aim is to help people build skills that carry into daily life.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problem-solving. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when intense feelings get in the way. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Elisa works together with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. She may try a skill-based focus first, then shift to deeper exploration if that feels more useful. The plan is adjusted over time based on what helps the client make progress. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief coaching, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English