About Elanna
Elanna Wilson-Guzman is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of professional experience. She is licensed in Ohio and Nevada and brings practical experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Elanna aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
She uses straightforward conversation to understand what is happening now and what you want to change. Sessions focus on concrete goals and everyday strategies you can try between meetings.
How Elanna works
The work is collaborative - Elanna adapts the pace and focus to each persons needs. Elanna addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stresses, grief, and addiction-related challenges. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving strain, and complicated family situations such as adoption, blended family challenges, and separation.
Her practice includes help for those coping with anger, low self-esteem, or the emotional fallout from abuse and domestic violence. She pays attention to how past experiences, including abandonment or dissociation, affect present choices. Elanna also helps people navigate major life changes, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring mood concerns like bipolar disorder.
Conversations include practical communication skills, coping techniques, and steps to manage overwhelming feelings. Therapy with Elanna is offered in English and can take place through several online formats. To begin, follow the sites Start Therapy process and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule sessions according to the therapists availability.
What Elanna works with
The areas below are the ones Elanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LISW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Elanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear goals and concrete skills. One common approach emphasizes identifying current patterns and learning practical coping strategies to manage anxiety, stress, and mood swings; this helps people build day-to-day tools they can use between sessions. Another approach centers on improving communication and relational skills to address conflict, intimacy-related concerns, and family stress; it focuses on practicing new ways of talking and setting boundaries. These techniques are well suited to addressing trauma-related reactions and the emotional effects of caregiving or chronic illness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elanna will collaborate with each person to understand their needs, preferences, and goals, and then adjust methods over time. She treats therapy as a team effort where feedback and small experiments help determine what fits best.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief exchanges into a busy day and to follow up between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and communication styles while still keeping the focus on progress.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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