Teletherapy for Saratoga Springs, NY

If anxiety, stress or lack of motivation is holding you back or making everyday life more difficult, please reach out to me for a free consultation. Together, my clients and I work to "make friends with our anxiety." This means, rather than seeing anxiety and stress as our enemy, we listen to what it's trying to tell us and learn to use it to our benefit. Rather than struggling against our feelings, our work will focus on understanding them and using them to help us achieve our goals and live a full life. I also specialize in relationship/family issues, ADHD, trauma, and college mental health.

Elaine does transpersonal and transformational therapy. Clients experience their unique personal transformation through a mind, body, spiritual approach. It's a heart-centered journey to wellness utilizing holistic therapies. Through hypnosis, art therapy, breathwork, Reiki healing, energy medicine, TFT, and the work of Byron Katie the client is brought back to the essence of who he/she really is. We learn to let go of our tedious stories that only serve to keep us suffering and struggling with life. We meet all of our thoughts, feelings, and experiences with love, acceptance and as gifts of opportunity and portals to healing.

I offer clinical support to adults and couples experiencing life transitions and challenges that create stress, tension, anxiety, and depression. I use a holistic, strengths-based approach, understanding that within all of us lie resilience and a deep desire to overcome limitations, and to find peace and happiness. My goal as a therapist is to support people in empowering themselves. We all face challenges at different points in our lives. Overcoming these challenges provides an opportunity to grow, learn, transform and find meaning.

The importance of relationships within our daily lives is often overlooked or forgotten when we struggle. Focusing on relationships, I use personal interaction to promote healing inside and outside of the therapeutic setting. Through the use of video conferencing, I work with individuals and couples who struggle in areas such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief, as well as family and couples relational dynamics. My treatment style integrates compassion, support, and humor to build resiliency through self-regulation, encourage growth, and promote self-discovery.

We all come with an inherent set of strengths and skills that has allowed us to navigate life to this point. However, life transitions and challenges can tap our reserves and make drawing upon these strengths feel almost impossible. I provide an affirming, comfortable space to support you in identifying what you already have that is working and ways to apply this with more regularity and ease moving forward. Through compassionate, integrative life coaching, I work to help you add to your existing skill set, develop insight, identify areas of your life that need greater focus to create lasting change.

I have worked with hundreds of individuals and families across the Country, in a variety of settings. I know that living a happy life is realistic and achievable, no matter what your current situation. I am passionate about personal growth, and believe I have a natural ability to connect with a diverse range of client populations.

My approach towards helping you is to create a supportive space to bring you comfort to your current experiences.I believe it's necessary to accept where you are and to understand where you want to go. I have 20+ years of experience providing treatment and consultations with reputable organizations. I invite you in to talk to explore the changes in your life that may facilitate healthy growth.

I am a Licensed Master Social Worker who has professional experience working with young adults experiencing Anxiety and Depression, and stressors attached to relationships, work/life balance, and self confidence. I also work closely with clients who have experienced or are experiencing intimate partner violence and relationship trauma. I help clients identify their triggers, create safety plans, cope with emotional distress, and move forward through a strengths and empowerment based approach. I meet clients where they're at to determine a personalized and appropriately paced treatment plan.

Therapy can address difficult situations but it is also helpful with normal problems in the normal course of life. I believe therapy helps to relieve painful and uncomfortable feelings and it can be a journey of self discovery and awareness that will lead to a more fulfilling life. People begin working with me when they are having difficulty adjusting to a current life situation and others seek to address their struggles with depression, anxiety, or relationships.

I am here to hold space for you, support you, challenge you, and empower you while taking a trauma-informed, non-judgmental, and solution focused approach whether you are struggling with your mental health, relationships, life transitions, decision making, confidence, limiting beliefs, grief, goals or simply the human experience itself.

Psychotherapy, to me, is about getting to know and accept yourself, gaining an understanding of how you relate to yourself and the world around you, learning better ways to manage emotions and healing past traumas in order to live your happiest, healthiest life. I use a combination of traditional talk therapy and various expressive modalities to help clients reach their healing goals.

The importance of relationships within our daily lives is often overlooked or forgotten when we struggle. Focusing on relationships, I use personal interaction to promote healing inside and outside of the therapeutic setting. Through the use of video conferencing, I work with individuals and couples who struggle in areas such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief, as well as family and couples relational dynamics. My treatment style integrates compassion, support, and humor to build resiliency through self-regulation, encourage growth, and promote self-discovery.

The importance of relationships within our daily lives is often overlooked or forgotten when we struggle. Focusing on relationships, I use personal interaction to promote healing inside and outside of the therapeutic setting. Through the use of video conferencing, I work with individuals and couples who struggle in areas such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief, as well as family and couples relational dynamics. My treatment style integrates compassion, support, and humor to build resiliency through self-regulation, encourage growth, and promote self-discovery.

Each of us holds within ourselves tremendous potential and an innate knowing of just what we need. I look at many symptoms as a creative, adaptive response to our environment that should be respected as such. Through positive connection with others, we can learn new ways of relating to our bodies, our spirits, and our world. I use a collaborative approach to treatment, with the belief that without your perspective and input, therapy will not be nearly as beneficial.

I have been a practicing Social Worker for the last 40 years. I have worked in both private practice and Community Mental Health. I have worked with CISM debriefing for first responders, Crisis Intervention, and Certified in hypnotherapy. I have worked with anxiety disorders, mood disorders and relationship issues. Training with Tara Brach and Joseph Goldstein on mindfulness, and level 1 training in Accelerated Resolution Therapy.

For over 35 years,I have been providing psychotherapy to adolescents ,adults and families. I recognize that knowing you need help is not the same as knowing what kind of help you need.My role is to facilitate that process with you; to provide the guidance, support and collaboration that will enable us to identify how you can most effectively reach your personal goals and improve your quality of life.As we move through that process, you can rely on me to be honest, forthright and compassionate; to work with you, side by side, as you face the challenges ahead.

I focus on providing clinical support to clients who would like to achieve higher potential in their life, career, sports and overall life balance. Sometimes people feel stuck in old patterns of behavior and weighed down by previous negative experiences. I utilize several psychotherapeutic modalities that are based on individual needs and goals; allowing clients to move forward in a more positive and fulfilling way. I incorporate nutrition and active life style, if needed, to provide the best results for clients.

Being human is difficult. Period. It can come with painful and traumatizing experiences -- particularly as we live in a society that is imbued with isms, poverty, and uncertainty about the future. We can experience deep sadness, loneliness and worries. And even so, there is something in us that wants to find hope and long-lasting joy, and live a life that's rich, meaningful, and filled with connection and belongingness.