About Elisha
Elisha Farley is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD. She practices in Pennsylvania and draws on straightforward, respectful conversation to help clients find clearer ways forward. Her manner is warm and grounded, aiming to make difficult topics easier to talk about.
Elisha listens for what matters most to each person and adapts sessions to fit their goals.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to reduce overwhelming thoughts and improve daily routines. She also uses narrative and client-centered approaches to help people reframe painful stories about themselves. Sessions focus on problem solving that feels doable.
Clients work on small habit changes, communication skills, and coping techniques they can use between meetings. Motivational interviewing can help when someone wants to change patterns like substance use or relationship behaviors. Elisha has experience across many life challenges including grief, trauma, parenting stress, workplace strain, and life transitions.
She supports people exploring identity and intimacy questions, and those dealing with bipolar mood concerns or addiction-related issues. Her focus is on practical steps that fit each person’s life. People who choose her often want a collaborator rather than a lecturer.
She aims to offer clear explanations, steady support, and tools that can be practiced outside of sessions. Starting therapy is framed as a joint process toward manageable change.
Approaches and online care that meet you where you are
Elisha commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies in online sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following each person's priorities, which helps people feel understood and guides the pace of change. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She also incorporates mindfulness to help calm racing thoughts and bring attention back to the present moment. Mindfulness practices can be short exercises used between sessions to steady mood and improve focus. Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together; the therapist and client decide collaboratively which methods fit current goals, comfort, and lifestyle. Online formats make it easier to keep continuity while fitting therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video, and live chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins or people who express themselves better in writing. These options give flexibility for regular sessions, brief check-ins, or skill practice between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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