Elisa Mantel-Smith, LCSW-R
New York · 10 years in practice
Elisa Mantel-Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a decade of experience helping people through hard moments.
License and registration
- LCSW-R, New York
- 052448 · expires February 2028
- NPI
- 1497072029 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Elisa
Elisa Mantel-Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a decade of experience helping people through hard moments. She works from a calm, straightforward style aimed at making therapy feel usable. Sessions focus on what matters now and on small steps people can take between meetings.
She blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered care to help people notice and name their emotions. That often makes worries about relationships, intimacy, parenting, or grief easier to talk about.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused ideas are used when practical skills can ease symptoms like anxiety, panic, or compulsive behaviors. Her background includes work in New York settings supporting people with health and fertility challenges, caregiver stress, and life changes. She also has experience with trauma and abuse, addictions, and issues tied to eating and body image.
These experiences shape a steady, patient approach to difficult topics. Elisa aims to reach people where they are and build on their strengths. Sessions are conversational and direct, with concrete tools and strategies offered when useful.
She pays attention to how emotions and behavior interact, so clients can try different ways of coping. She provides care in English and sees adults seeking help with stress, depression, relationship problems, parenting strain, ADHD-related struggles, grief, and other life transitions. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Elisa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Elisa names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people tune into feelings and patterns that shape their relationships and mood. Online sessions can provide space to notice emotional responses and practice new ways of relating to others or to oneself. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. In teletherapy this means sessions that follow the client’s lead and prioritize what feels most urgent in each meeting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical behavior changes. It often involves simple exercises and homework that fit well into video or text-based formats.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods best match their goals, needs, and preferences. This may mean combining emotion-focused reflection with CBT skills or a brief solution-focused plan depending on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations and skill demonstrations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera helps, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving forward.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches. The style is collaborative and practical, with sessions that name emotions and introduce tools to change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 10 years of clinical experience working in New York settings with individuals and groups on health, fertility, loss, and related life issues.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She holds the LCSW-R credential and practices in New York.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does the cost and getting started process work?
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