Elisa Carlino, LCSW

Elisa Carlino is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of practice based in New York. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, parenting strain, ADHD challenges, and trauma-related concerns. Elisa also supports clients dealing with relationship or intimacy worries, career changes, and compassion fatigue. She speaks English and Italian and works with international clients as well.

Elisa uses clear, practical tools in sessions. She leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness exercises to manage difficult feelings and build a life that reflects personal values.

Sessions feel conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect a friendly, direct style that emphasizes learning skills they can use outside sessions. Elisa treats the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative space where trust matters and progress is paced to each person's needs.

Her background includes clinical work in clinics, hospitals, and schools, plus online counseling. That variety informs a flexible approach to different life stages and problems. She aims to teach tools that last beyond therapy and to support people through practical day-to-day challenges.

Elisa frames therapy as a team effort. She helps clients set clear goals, practices skills in session, and adapts methods if something is not working. The emphasis stays on small, manageable steps toward better coping and clearer choices.

How Elisa blends practical therapies for online care

Elisa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves setting concrete goals, testing beliefs in everyday life, and practicing new skills to reduce anxiety or low mood.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people make room for difficult feelings while clarifying what matters most. ACT encourages small, values-based actions even when emotions feel heavy. Attachment-Based Therapy appears in her work when relationship patterns and early bonds shape current difficulties; it helps people notice interaction habits and try different ways of relating.

Choosing an approach is a joint process. Elisa will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If something does not click, she adapts techniques or blends approaches until a workable plan emerges.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options let people schedule sessions around work, family, and travel while keeping therapy consistent.