- Stress and anxiety
- Trauma recovery
- Caregiver support
About Elisa
Elisa Shevlin-Reynolds is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the strain of caregiving. She supports those facing relationship challenges, parenting concerns, family conflict, and recovery from trauma and abuse. Elisa also helps people struggling with anger, low self-esteem, career changes, and compassion fatigue.
Her style is warm and interactive. She aims to create a respectful, non-judgmental space where people can talk through what matters most to them. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer choices rather than labels. Elisa draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
Elisa uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods to help identify patterns of thinking and behavior that get in the way. She also incorporates acceptance-based strategies to build willingness around difficult feelings and values-based action. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when clients need help finding momentum for change.
Her work often addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, aging and caregiver stress, and chronic illness or pain. She also supports people dealing with eating and body image issues, dissociation, commitment and control problems, and communication struggles.
Elisa practices in New York as an LCSW. Sessions are conducted in English. People who are outside the United States are not served through her practice. To begin, people use the site Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
How her approaches translate to online work
Elisa often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice and make room for difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. This approach can help with ongoing anxiety, low mood, and life changes where people want clearer direction.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and build concrete skills for change. CBT can be useful for stress, worry, depression, and managing symptoms that interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Elisa treats it as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adjust methods over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. It also lets people combine structured skill-building work with values-based conversations in a way that fits day-to-day life.
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Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Elisa address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and caregiving strain. She also helps with relationship and parenting concerns, self-esteem, anger, and career transitions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is warm and interactive, and she aims to create a respectful, non-judgmental space. Sessions focus on practical steps and building clearer choices rather than labels.
What experience does she bring?
She has 22 years of clinical experience working with adults across life stages, including people caring for aging parents and those facing midlife transitions.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is an LCSW licensed in New York and sees people through her New York practice.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.