About Elisa
Elisa Yamonaco is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career worries, depression, and life changes. She works with concerns such as relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, anger, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Elisa takes a respectful and compassionate stance in sessions and aims to meet people where they are.
Her style is direct and practical. She focuses on clear goals and steps people can take between sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped around what feels most useful for each person, and plans are adjusted as progress is made. She combines talk with skills practice so people leave sessions with tools they can use right away. Elisa uses strategies drawn from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work.
That mix supports mood concerns, panic and social anxiety, trouble with motivation, and improving communication. The emphasis is on building coping skills and clearer thinking about choices. With five years of experience, she brings practical experience from settings in New York.
She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space and to treat people with sensitivity and respect. Elisa encourages honest feedback so therapy stays useful and relevant. Beginning work involves talking about immediate concerns and setting short-term goals.
Over time sessions can shift toward longer-term change like improved self-confidence, steadier mood, and healthier reactions to stress.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the person, which helps build trust and clarify goals through conversation. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal communication, and tolerating distress. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set short-term goals and adjust methods if something isn’t helpful. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skills coaching. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins, homework support, or people who prefer writing. These options help make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English