Elanna Wilson-Guzman
Calm guidance for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LISW, LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Nevada, Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elanna
Elanna Wilson-Guzman is a licensed social worker with a decade of clinical experience. She holds LISW and LCSW credentials and practices from Ohio. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship problems.
Her work is grounded in respect, sensitivity, and compassion for each person who reaches out. She listens first to understand what matters to each family. Then she helps set clear, practical goals and creates a plan tailored to those needs.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and direct, with an emphasis on skills that can be used between meetings. Her background includes supporting people through grief, addiction, chronic illness, and caregiving stress. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family dynamics, and communication breakdowns.
That range comes from ten years of varied clinical work in Nevada and Ohio. Elanna believes that therapy is a collaborative process. She will work with clients to adjust approaches as needed and respects cultural and personal differences.
She encourages honest, straightforward conversations about what is and isn’t working. For parents and families feeling overwhelmed, she offers a practical focus on coping skills, clearer communication, and rebuilding trust. If you are taking steps toward help, she aims to make the process understandable and steady.
Evidence-based approaches for family and parenting concerns
Elanna uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and clearer communication. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for emotion regulation and stress management, teaching simple exercises to reduce anxiety and handle strong feelings. This helps when stress, anxiety, or mood problems interfere with daily life.Another approach focuses on relationship and family communication. It centers on identifying interaction patterns that cause conflict and then practicing new ways to talk and solve problems. This method is useful for blended family issues, caregiver stress, and improving parenting interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose and adapt methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they check progress and change course when something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy family schedule and to keep continuity when life is unpredictable. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, coach through conflicts, and track progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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