About Elyse
Elyse Daignault is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and uses practical, down-to-earth methods in sessions. Elyse blends direct conversation with gentle humor to keep difficult topics manageable for people who feel overwhelmed.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful patterns. Elyse also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at relationship and intimacy concerns, and Trauma-Focused Therapy for past abuse or post-traumatic stress.
How Elyse works
Sessions tend to be concrete and action-oriented, with time for feelings and life context. Elyse has long experience supporting people with mood disorders, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic attacks, and eating and sleeping difficulties. She also helps with addiction, anger, life transitions, and career stress.
Additional focus areas include abandonment, blended family issues, fertility concerns, and body image struggles. She has worked with people who have had self-harm histories and severe personality challenges, and she has experience supporting members of the LGBT community. Elyse practices in Massachusetts and holds an MA LICSW - Master of Arts and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.
Her approach aims to balance practical skill-building with emotional understanding. New clients can expect straightforward feedback, tools they can try between sessions, and a collaborative plan to address immediate problems and longer-term goals.
Elyse lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Elyse works with
The areas below are the ones Elyse 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How Elyse’s Approaches Work Online
Elyse uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thought and behavior patterns that keep problems alive. CBT focuses on small experiments and practical skills that people can try between sessions to ease anxiety, mood swings, or panic attacks.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address relationship and intimacy issues by helping people name and shift underlying emotions. EFT can be useful when trust, connection, or closeness feel stuck or painful.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elyse collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress or new issues appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video makes it possible to have a more traditional face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and changing life demands.
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