About Elena
Dr. Elena Felipe-Valera focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and ADHD. She also helps people coping with career strain, relationship and intimacy issues, compassion fatigue, and depression.
Dr. Felipe-Valera speaks English and Spanish and brings 23 years of experience to her work in Georgia. Her style is practical and person-focused.
She listens first, then helps set clear goals. Sessions often blend short-term strategies with work that looks at past events that still cause pain.
Background and approach
The aim is steady progress people can notice between appointments. She uses client-centered methods to keep the person’s needs central in every session. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is part of her approach when past trauma continues to affect daily life.
Narrative therapy helps people reframe painful stories about themselves so they can try new behaviors and responses. People typically get a mix of focused exercises and conversational work. Some sessions concentrate on problem-solving and skill building.
Others slow down to process difficult memories or strong emotions. Dr. Felipe-Valera also offers coaching-style support to help clients move toward practical life changes.
She combines therapeutic tools with action steps for work, caregiving, chronic illness, and other ongoing stresses. Her aim is to help people find clearer choices and more manageable routines. Her background spans clinical and coaching roles, which inform a flexible way of working.
The result is an approach that blends short-term relief and longer-term growth, shaped around each person’s goals and life demands.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Dr. Felipe-Valera uses client-centered therapy to place the person's needs and goals at the center of each session, helping people name what matters and decide next steps. She also works with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to address memories that continue to cause distress, using structured processing to reduce their emotional intensity. Narrative therapy is used to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and try different responses to old patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, current challenges, and comfort level, and adjust the plan over time as progress and priorities change.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, real-time coping support, or when someone wants to reflect in writing. These formats offer flexibility and make it possible to continue work across different life demands and locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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