About Elisa
Elisa Carlino helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or parenting pressures. She also supports people facing ADHD-related challenges, intimacy concerns, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Elisa is introduced here as a warm and practical guide who wants to make therapy feel manageable and useful.
Elisa uses clear tools to address everyday problems. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance strategies to break unhelpful patterns.
How Elisa works
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape current reactions. Sessions focus on real goals and workable skills. People learn ways to manage emotions, improve communication, and handle change.
Elisa frames therapy like learning skills from a supportive coach and friend rather than a set of abstract rules. Her experience includes work in clinics, hospitals, and schools, alongside many years of online counseling. Elisa holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and has practiced for 12 years in New York.
She speaks English and Italian and has experience with a broad range of life challenges, including adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns. Therapy can be a step-by-step process. Elisa helps people set achievable goals, practice new habits, and track progress.
She encourages a collaborative approach that fits each person’s pace and priorities.
Elisa lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Elisa works with
The areas below are the ones Elisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How Elisa's Approaches Work Online
Elisa often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. CBT targets practical skill-building to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems stuck.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice their reactions and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness exercises are brief and can be practiced between sessions to improve focus and calm. Together these approaches aim to give tools for managing anxiety, depression, trauma responses, and everyday stressors.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elisa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That way she and the client decide together whether to emphasize ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or a blend of methods.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is needed. Phone sessions can be less bandwidth intensive and easier to fit into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or do shorter check-ins when time is limited. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy lives.
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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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