Dr. Elena Felipe-Valera
Compassionate, practical therapy for life transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Georgia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elena
Dr. Elena Felipe-Valera offers help for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and career concerns. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue, ADHD, depression, and life changes.
She speaks English and Spanish and brings 23 years of clinical practice to her work. Elena holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - with licenses TN LCSW 9267 and FL LCSW SW5835 and practices from Georgia. Her style is practical and collaborative.
Background and approach
She listens first to understand what matters to each person. Then she uses focused tools to reduce distress and build new skills. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented while respecting individual pace and values.
Elena draws from Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on the person’s needs. She uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, for processing traumatic memories. She also uses Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to reframe difficulties and identify small, achievable steps forward.
Over two decades of experience inform her approach. That background includes work with people experiencing chronic illness, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and end-of-life concerns. She pairs clinical methods with coaching strategies to help clients move from insight to practical change.
Therapy can be offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients can be seen. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic tools and online options that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person needs most, helping clients set goals and find their own solutions. This approach is useful for stress, life changes, relationship concerns, and building self-esteem.EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - helps people process painful memories and reduce the emotional charge tied to traumatic events. It is commonly used for post-traumatic stress, trauma, and intense grief reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will partner with each person to choose or adjust methods based on needs, goals, and comfort. That collaborative process helps ensure therapy stays useful and relevant over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, to check in between meetings, and to maintain continuity when life gets busy. Licensed professionals can use these options to provide consistent, goal-focused care regardless of distance.
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.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
Narrative Therapy
Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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