About Elisa
Elisa Parker is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She approaches each person with respect and straightforward support. Elisa emphasizes practical steps and uses clients' existing strengths to move forward.
Elisa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep them stuck. She also uses the Gottman Method when communication and trust are central concerns, and Solution-Focused Therapy to set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
These approaches are used to address everyday struggles in clear, work-focused ways. Her experience includes working with attention-related challenges such as ADHD, and with issues tied to adoption and foster care, attachment, blended family dynamics, and family of origin concerns.
She also helps with body image, fertility and fatherhood questions, aging and geriatric matters, and the emotional effects of cancer or immigration stress. Elisa works with people facing the fallout from separation or divorce, natural or human-caused disasters, and those seeking forgiveness or improved communication. She helps clients break problems into steps and practice new habits between sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and Elisa sees clients in Florida as a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). She supports people who want a practical path forward and prefers clear, goal-oriented work that fits into real life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Elisa uses a few evidence-based approaches in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify thinking patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and teaches practical skills to change those patterns. The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication and rebuilding trust when relationship strain is a central issue. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on setting small, achievable goals and using existing strengths to create noticeable change in a short time.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Elisa will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will suggest strategies that fit their life. Together they decide whether to focus on thinking patterns, relationship skills, or quick goal work, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing communication skills, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, and family routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English