Celisa Hardesty
Support for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Celisa
Celisa Hardesty is a licensed independent social worker in Ohio who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem. She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Celisa aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supportive.
She offers a calm, straightforward style for parents and caregivers seeking clearer ways to handle family challenges.
Background and approach
With ten years of professional experience, Celisa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address family conflict, trauma and abuse, and emotional struggles like anxiety and low mood. She also has experience with issues related to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, and communication problems. Her work includes helping people navigate caregiver stress, chronic illness, and blended family dynamics.
Sessions often focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Celisa emphasizes collaboration, asking questions to clarify what matters most to each person and adjusting the approach as needed. She believes in building on small successes to improve confidence and motivation.
Outside of work, she enjoys animals, reading, travel, horror movies, Harry Potter, and supporting The Ohio State Buckeyes. These personal interests sometimes help create an easier, more human connection during sessions. Celisa offers services in English and practices in Ohio under the credential LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker.
Her experience is intended to support parents and caregivers who want clearer routines, better communication, and more manageable stress around family life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Many of Celisa's methods are evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different ways of thinking and acting; this can reduce anxiety and lift mood by changing how situations are interpreted. Another method centers on building stronger relationships and communication skills within the family - it teaches clear, small steps for listening and responding that reduce conflict and increase cooperation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, daily struggles, and what has helped before. Then she collaborates with each person to pick strategies that match their needs and preferences, adjusting plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls let people talk face to face from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep momentum when life gets hectic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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