About Elisa
Elisa Mantel-Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of practice in New York. She uses a warm, client-centered approach to help people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship or parenting concerns. Elisa aims to meet people where they are and build practical steps forward together.
She blends straightforward talk with tools that people can use between sessions. That often means identifying small changes in thinking and behavior, and then practicing those shifts in daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her, whether that is coping with loss, managing panic or phobias, or dealing with family tension. Her background includes work with people navigating health and fertility challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver strain.
Elisa also has experience supporting people with eating and body image issues, addiction concerns, and trauma and abuse. She draws on methods that help clarify goals and reduce symptoms so clients can try new ways of responding. Elisa holds a Master of Social Work from Columbia University and carries the NY LCSW-R credential.
She has worked in individual and group settings over the past decade and brings that practical experience into brief and ongoing therapy formats. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for change delivered online
Elisa commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a listening, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters and feel understood. That approach is useful for concerns like grief, caregiver strain, and relationship stresses because it starts with the person’s own priorities.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behavioral experiments. CBT is practical for anxiety, panic, phobias, and mood problems because it gives clear steps to test between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elisa collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That means adjusting pace, choosing concrete exercises, and revisiting what’s working as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual cues matter and for longer sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in works better. Live chat and messaging let people do brief updates, try written exercises, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to match therapy to real-world schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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