About Elina
Elina Malamud is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and life transitions. She works with individuals who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Her approach aims to help clients build practical coping skills and regain a sense of direction.
Elina focuses on day-to-day problems like sleep disruption, eating concerns, work stress, and relationship friction. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, addiction patterns, and challenges related to identity and sexuality.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among her focus areas for clients seeking support with attention and organization struggles. In session she uses clear, down-to-earth language and focuses on small, useful steps. Techniques come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful habits and test new ways of coping.
Sessions emphasize what a person can try between meetings. Elina holds LCSW credentials in New Jersey and New York and practices from a New York base. She speaks English and Russian.
Therapy can include short-term coaching goals or longer work aimed at deeper patterns, depending on what the person needs. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can fit therapy into busy lives. To begin, a prospective client uses the Start Therapy button, completes a brief matching questionnaire, and schedules based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, feeling stuck, and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgement. This approach helps people feel heard and build self-trust while they explore goals and challenges.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and behavior change work.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Adjustments are made as progress is reviewed, so sessions stay focused on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people read facial cues and have longer conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging can support quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or ongoing tracking between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family, or school schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York
- Languages
- English, Russian
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