Elias Gootzeit
Calm guidance for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LCSW-R
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elias
Elias Gootzeit offers support for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, and depression. He draws on forty years of clinical experience to help people find steadier footing during hard times. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, focused on skills that can be used between meetings.
Elias holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York - LCSW-R credential. Elias uses evidence-based techniques to help people manage strong emotions and cope with past hurts.
Background and approach
He helps clients identify unhelpful patterns and try small changes that can ease daily pressure. Conversations stay straightforward, with an emphasis on usable tools like emotion regulation and coping strategies. The practice addresses related concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and post-traumatic stress.
Elias also works with issues like guilt, shame, impulsivity, and isolation. He aims to create an open, non-religious space where people can speak honestly without feeling judged. Elias trained at Fordham University, earning a Master of Social Work in 1978, and maintains his NY LCSW-R 020933.
Over the years he has added trainings such as Divorce Mediation and Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy to his toolkit. That ongoing learning informs how he matches methods to each person’s needs. In sessions clients can expect a mix of problem-solving and emotional support.
The focus is on building resilience and practical skills to handle everyday strains. Elias works to help people leave therapy with clearer steps they can take on their own.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Many of Elias's techniques come from evidence-based therapeutic methods that focus on clear skills and real-life change. One approach emphasizes emotion regulation - learning simple strategies to calm intense feelings and react less impulsively. This helps with anger, anxiety, and mood difficulties by teaching step-by-step techniques to manage moments of distress.Another common focus is trauma-informed work that helps people process past harm at a manageable pace. This approach breaks down painful memories into smaller pieces and pairs that work with coping skills so clients can feel steadier as they address traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Elias works collaboratively to figure out which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people see facial cues and have a fuller conversation, while phone sessions offer simplicity when video is impractical. Live chat and text messaging provide brief, flexible ways to check in between sessions or use short-term support. These options increase accessibility and make it simpler to maintain regular work on problems over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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