About Elissa
Elissa Olson is a licensed independent mental health practitioner in Nebraska with 17 years of professional experience. She has spent her career treating chronic and persistent mental health and substance use concerns in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Elissa adapts conversations and care to match what each person needs. She focuses on practical steps and clear goals. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what feels doable for the client.
How Elissa works
Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, sleep and eating issues, and parenting stress. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and career stress. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment themes, body image, chronic illness and pain, and caregiving strain.
Elissa uses several therapeutic approaches to shape treatment. She draws on client-centered methods to create a respectful space. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for emotion regulation.
Emotion-focused ideas inform work on relationships and attachment, and existential themes help with life transitions and meaning questions. People who prefer straightforward discussion and concrete tools often find her style a good fit. She offers sessions in English and works with a variety of backgrounds.
The first steps are simple and start with a short matching questionnaire to connect with her practice.
Elissa lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Elissa works with
The areas below are the ones Elissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LIMHP, LMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
How her approaches shape online therapy
Elissa uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space that centers the person's priorities. This approach helps when someone wants a listener who follows their lead and helps clarify what matters most to them.She applies cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build practical strategies. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and some stress-related problems. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for people struggling with strong emotions or relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend or combine methods that make sense. Clients are involved in decisions about pacing and which skills to practice between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, family, or medical appointments.
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