About Elana
Elana Klinger-Rogers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and relationship or family challenges. She offers straightforward support for parenting worries, coping with life changes, grief, and struggles with addiction or trauma. Her approach aims to help clients find practical ways to move forward and feel more in control.
Elana keeps sessions focused and concrete. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify patterns and shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment work to help people notice what matters most and build actions around those values. Her style is collaborative and warm. She listens first, then helps set small, measurable goals clients can try between sessions.
She emphasizes skills people can practice in daily life, such as managing intense emotions, improving communication, and organizing routines that support attention and follow-through. Elana holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, and she practices in New York. She has experience supporting people with chronic illness, attachment concerns, and complex family situations.
She also addresses issues like eating concerns, intimacy-related problems, and career stress. Many clients come for help with emotional regulation, self-esteem, and burnout. Sessions mix practical skill-building with attention to personal values and relationships.
The aim is steady progress toward clearer priorities and better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elana often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change patterns of thought and behavior that make problems worse, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and attention-related challenges. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions toward those values, which can help when motivation or overwhelm gets in the way.Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will discuss options and tailor techniques to fit a client's goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they decide which tools to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video is helpful for in-depth work and body language, phone sessions can be quicker and use less bandwidth, and live chat or texting can suit short check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options allow therapy to fit around school, work, and family commitments rather than require major schedule changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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