Elisa Carlino, LCSW

Elisa Carlino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 12 years of clinical experience supporting children, teens, young professionals, parents, and families. She has provided online counseling and has worked in a variety of settings including clinics, hospitals, and schools, bringing practical experience from multiple care environments to her virtual practice.

Elisa focuses her work on anxiety, depression, parenting and family systems, ADHD, trauma, job coaching, and women’s health and reproductive concerns. She combines evidence-informed techniques with a warm, accessible style to help clients build skills they can use long term and to promote greater wellbeing across their personal and professional lives.

In sessions she aims to communicate like a supportive friend who also offers professional guidance - encouraging growth, helping clients master practical tools, and honoring the importance of a trusting therapeutic relationship. Elisa invites collaboration and aims to make the process engaging, hopeful, and tailored to each person’s goals. She looks forward to partnering with clients as they work toward increased health, happiness, and success in their life roles.

Approaches That Guide Online Care

Elisa integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into her online work. ACT focuses on helping clients accept difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying personal values and taking committed action - it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns formed early in life and how they affect current relationships - it can help with intimacy issues, family dynamics, and healing from abandonment or adoption-related concerns. CBT is a practical, skills-based approach that identifies unhelpful thinking patterns and tests new behaviors - it is often effective for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress management.

Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Elisa works collaboratively with clients to assess needs, set goals, and tailor methods to individual preferences so that treatment fits each person’s life and priorities.

Online therapy with Elisa is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules, time zones, and communication styles. These options make it easier to maintain consistency in care, access support from outside one’s immediate area, and choose the format that feels most comfortable and effective for the client.