Elisa Carlino, LCSW

Elisa Carlino, LCSW, offers practical support for people facing midlife concerns and other life transitions. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, ADHD, parenting strain, career questions, and compassion fatigue. Elisa writes and talks in a straightforward way and aims to make the first steps less overwhelming for anyone reaching out.

She brings 12 years of clinical experience from clinics, hospitals, and schools. Her background includes helping young professionals, parents, and people managing health or caregiving responsibilities. Elisa aims to build a working relationship that feels like a supportive, guiding friend while keeping sessions focused on measurable progress.

In sessions she teaches tools people can use long term. Those tools come from cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-based approaches. She also uses attachment-focused thinking to help people understand repeated relationship patterns and motivational interviewing to support change when goals feel stalled.

Elisa adapts her style to each person’s needs and preferences. She prefers short, clear steps and practical homework when that helps. She also draws on mindful awareness and values-based choices when someone wants calmer thinking and clearer direction.

She speaks English and Italian and practices in New York. Elisa accepts international clients and works with people coping with complex medical, caregiving, or identity-related issues. To start, she asks people to describe what matters most and then plans sessions around those priorities.

How Elisa brings evidence-based methods online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It can help with life changes, midlife questioning, and motivation to try new directions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior through practical exercises and short experiments. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm presence during stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Elisa treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will talk about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most in practice.

Confirm the session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific online options. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full appointment feels difficult to arrange. It can also let people use audio-only or lower-bandwidth options when video would be a distraction. Licensed professionals can help figure out which format best fits a person’s daily routine and goals.