About Elissa
Elissa Olson is a licensed mental health practitioner in Nebraska with 17 years of clinical experience. She has provided care in both inpatient and outpatient settings and focuses on helping people facing long-term mental health and substance use challenges. People who come to her can expect respectful, thoughtful conversation and a plan that is tailored to their needs.
Elissa works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and stress.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, and career-related stress. Her background includes work with complex and co-occurring problems such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, chronic pain and illness, and compassion fatigue. Her approach draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally-focused work, and existential ideas.
Sessions often focus on practical skills, clearer understanding of patterns, and aligning choices with values. The goal is to help people build manageable steps toward more stable functioning. Elissa adapts the pace and topics to each person's situation.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions. Expect straightforward conversation, coping skills you can try between sessions, and regular check-ins on progress. Elissa conducts sessions in English from Nebraska and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the site's matching and booking process.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elissa combines client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to address daily struggles and longer-standing patterns. Client-centered work means conversations are guided by what matters to the person and the therapist follows their lead to build trust and clarity. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small changes in behavior to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep trouble.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are central concerns. DBT skills are practical tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing impulsive reactions, which can help with addiction, anger, and relationship strain. Choosing which approaches to use is collaborative; the therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan together over time.
Online care is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth work and seeing nonverbal cues, phone can fit a low-bandwidth check-in, chat and messaging make brief check-ins or skill practice easier between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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