Elaine Antin
Experienced LCSW focused on practical coping skills
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elaine
Elaine Antin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience in mental health care. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes. Elaine aims to help people build practical coping skills and regain a sense of control over daily life.
She practiced in public and personal hospitals and in small agencies across Wisconsin.
Background and approach
Her clients have had a wide range of diagnoses and life circumstances, including mood disorders and chronic health challenges. Elaine does not reduce people to labels; she treats each person as an individual with their own strengths and needs. Elaine uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person.
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Jungian ideas, and Mindfulness to create a balanced plan. In sessions she focuses on clear goals, practical strategies, and steady support. Her style is warm, open, and nonjudgmental.
She prioritizes a respectful therapeutic relationship and aims to create a calm space where people can talk, learn new skills, and try out different ways to cope. Sessions may include problem-solving, skill practice, and reflection on patterns. Elaine welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into someone’s life.
She encourages straightforward conversations about what’s working, what isn’t, and how to move forward step by step.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person in the room. It focuses on listening, understanding, and helping people set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and building skills to manage intense feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Elaine will work with each person to figure out which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will adjust strategies over time so the work stays useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access support from different locations. The variety of formats allows for real conversation, skill practice, and regular check-ins in ways that suit each person’s schedule and comfort level.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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