About Elyse
Elyse Daignault is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 24 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people facing mood, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her style is direct and down-to-earth.
She uses plain talk and occasional humor to make hard topics easier to handle. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how feelings shape relationships.
Background and approach
Trauma-Focused Therapy guides work with painful memories and reactions. Sessions tend to focus on clear steps people can try between meetings. Elyse helps clients break problems into small, practical actions.
She emphasizes coping skills for panic, phobias, sleep trouble, and mood shifts. She has long experience working with people who have complex histories, including self-harm and suicidal behavior, and with clients who identify as LGBT. Elyse offers steady, realistic support while helping people build safety and new patterns of thinking and acting.
Based in Massachusetts, she blends empathy with a pragmatic approach. Parents reading this will find straightforward language and concrete tools to try. Elyse encourages questions and works collaboratively to set goals and track progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elyse commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves setting small experiments, practicing new responses, and tracking progress to reduce anxiety, panic, and phobias.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand how emotions shape their reactions and relationships. EFT focuses on recognizing patterns in feelings and testing new ways of connecting and responding with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elyse will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She discusses options and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a lunch break or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework review, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and allow continuity when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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