About Elisa
Elisa Yamonaco is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, ADHD, low self-esteem, career struggles, and depression. She focuses on practical steps that fit each person's life. Elisa aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people feel heard and understood.
Elisa uses a conversational style and builds a simple plan with each person. She listens first to what matters most, then suggests short-term goals and doable strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at making small changes that add up over time. Her work draws from methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered conversation to tackle negative thoughts and unhelpful habits. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming and motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change.
Clients often leave sessions with specific tools to manage stress, improve focus, and handle difficult moods. Elisa pays attention to practical barriers like daily routines and time pressures, and she adjusts strategies to fit real life. With five years of professional experience, Elisa tailors each plan to the person in front of her.
She encourages steady progress and honors the courage it takes to reach out for help. Her goal is to support people as they build clearer direction and more manageable days.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel understood and guides conversations toward their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical ways to change unhelpful patterns. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, offers emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for intense feelings and panic moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Elisa works collaboratively to figure out which methods match a person's needs and preferences. She will adjust techniques over time and check in about what is helping and what could change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a fuller conversation is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options can make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, manage sudden stress, or keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- 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
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