Salisa Garrand
Compassionate care for stress and trauma
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Salisa
Salisa Garrand is a licensed mental health counselor in New York. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Parents coping with pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum concerns are also among the issues she addresses.
She draws on four years of professional practice to offer steady support in times of uncertainty. Her style is trauma-informed and holistic. She emphasizes practical steps and small changes that build resilience over time.
Background and approach
Sessions center on listening first, then identifying strengths and manageable goals. She aims to create a calm space where people feel heard and respected. Salisa encourages clients to view themselves as experts in their own lives.
She works alongside them to uncover resources and to try new ways of handling difficult moments. Conversations often include emotion regulation, coping strategies, and improving communication patterns within relationships. She places particular attention on maternal mental health and experiences around pregnancy and childbirth.
When trauma or past abuse is present, she takes a careful, paced approach rather than pushing for rapid change. Progress is measured in real-life changes and increased day-to-day functioning. Sessions may include direct skill teaching, reflective discussion, and collaboratively set homework or practice tasks.
Her aim is to support people toward clearer choices, steadier moods, and greater self-compassion.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many of the techniques used are evidence-based and practical. One common approach focuses on grounding and emotion regulation skills to reduce anxiety and panic symptoms. These techniques teach simple tools to calm the body and manage intense feelings in the moment.Another key focus is trauma-informed work that moves at a careful, paced rate. This involves naming how past events affect current reactions and practicing small, steady steps toward feeling safer and more in control. For maternal mental health concerns, work often centers on mood tracking, validating the parenting experience, and building routines that support recovery.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist helps each person decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls and phone sessions allow real-time conversation, while live chat and text messaging can support shorter check-ins and timely support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Salisa
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point