Elisa Shevlin-Reynolds
Practical support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elisa
Elisa Shevlin-Reynolds is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 22 years of experience helping people through difficult life moments. She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, family struggles, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, grief, parenting, career changes, and depression. Her manner is warm and straightforward, aiming to make sessions feel like a calm place to sort things out.
She uses practical skills and clear conversation to help people manage symptoms and cope with change.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on small, doable steps that build better daily routines and steadier relationships. Elisa pays attention to how life events, caregiving roles, and workplace stress affect mood and behavior. Her training includes methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior therapy skills, and client-centered listening.
She blends those tools to match each person’s needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. Motivational interviewing is also part of how she supports people facing tough decisions. Many clients bring layered concerns such as attachment wounds, blended family issues, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness, or eating and body-image struggles.
Elisa helps break those layers into manageable pieces and works with people to set realistic goals. She also addresses compassion fatigue in helping professionals and others who carry heavy responsibilities. Sessions are offered in English and are available online by video, phone, live chat, or messaging.
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist’s availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elisa uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy among other methods. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches practical skills to change behavior and mood, which can help with depression, anxiety, and coping in daily life.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. Together they will adjust the plan over time based on what feels most helpful and doable for the person’s situation.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, to continue care through transitions, and to use brief check-ins when that helps. Licensed professionals can combine live sessions with messaging between meetings to support skill practice and steady progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a 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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point