About Elisandra
Elisandra Lopes is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Massachusetts with five years of professional experience. She speaks English and Portuguese and uses a straightforward, respectful approach when meeting new clients. She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem.
She also helps people processing trauma and abuse and those coping with major life changes. Sessions emphasize clear, practical steps and steady support rather than clinical jargon.
Background and approach
Her work is shaped by client-centered principles. That means conversations start with what matters most to the individual and move at their pace. Elisandra blends this with mindfulness and solution-focused tools to help people notice patterns, set small goals, and try new ways of responding.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test more balanced ones. Mindfulness exercises are offered to reduce reactivity and build calm. Solution-focused methods help clients create short-term plans and track progress between sessions.
Elisandra is attentive to issues that come up across the lifespan, including aging concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also addresses concerns such as panic, obsessive thinking, guilt, isolation, and multicultural stressors. Her tone in session is compassionate, direct, and collaborative.
Approaches you can use online
Elisandra integrates Client-Centered Therapy by starting from what matters most to the person. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and helping clients decide what to work on first. This approach is useful for people who want a gentle, respectful space to sort feelings and priorities.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive thinking by teaching small changes in thinking and behavior that can shift mood over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through options, consider goals and preferences, and tailor methods to match the client’s needs. This is a collaborative process that can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video enables face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins or shorter communication bursts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Portuguese