Elisa Carlino , LCSW

Elisa Carlino is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and challenges related to parenting and women’s health. She also supports individuals with ADHD, grief, intimacy concerns, and career or life transitions. Elisa communicates in English and Italian and works with clients in New York and beyond.

Elisa brings 12 years of practice across clinics, hospitals, and schools to her online work. She aims to be a steady, supportive presence in sessions and prefers clear, practical tools that clients can use between meetings. Sessions focus on concrete steps people can take to feel calmer and more in control of daily life.

Her approach blends acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, and cognitive-behavioral strategies with mindfulness and motivational interviewing. That mix lets Elisa tailor sessions to each person’s needs while teaching coping skills and ways to change unhelpful patterns. She frames therapy as collaborative and goal-oriented rather than prescriptive.

Clients can expect warm, straightforward conversation with skills practice and short-term goals when useful. Elisa describes her role as much like a supportive guide who helps people build lasting habits for wellbeing. She values a good working relationship and aims for sessions that are focused, kind, and practical.

Elisa has experience addressing a broad range of concerns including caregiver stress, body image, chronic illness and disability, adoption and foster care issues, attachment struggles, and compassion fatigue. Her background in varied settings informs flexible strategies that fit real life.

Therapeutic approaches and online flexibility

Elisa commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action. CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behavior to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful habits.

She treats the choice of approach as a conversation. Elisa collaborates with each person to identify goals and then tries approaches that fit those goals and personal preferences. Over the first few sessions she will adjust methods and priorities so sessions feel relevant and useful.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people work face-to-face when bandwidth and surroundings allow, while phone can be a good option when a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit short updates or coaching-style exchanges into a busy day. These options give flexibility for therapy to fit into work, caregiving, and travel schedules.