About Elyse
Elyse Daignault is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with 24 years in clinical practice. She focuses on practical strategies for stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Elyse aims to be direct and down-to-earth in sessions while keeping a warm, human touch.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation and clear goals. Elyse blends real talk and occasional humor with focused therapeutic work. She offers help for relationship struggles, grief, trauma, addictions, mood concerns, and issues around self-esteem and identity.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience with complex presentations such as personality disorders, self-harm histories, and repeated suicide attempts. She has also supported LGBTQ clients and people coping with life transitions, fertility concerns, and eating or sleeping problems. Elyse uses well-established methods that target thoughts, emotions, and trauma responses.
She draws on approaches that help people change unhelpful patterns, repair emotional connections, and process past hurt. Sessions are practical and aimed at skills people can use between meetings. She practices from Massachusetts and offers services in English.
Elyse works with people who want an honest, experienced clinician who balances direct feedback with compassion. Her long career shapes a pragmatic style focused on real-world results.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Elyse commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and mood regulation. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process past traumatic experiences and reduce the ways those memories interfere with daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Elyse will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences, then recommend one or a blend of approaches. She treats the choice of method as a collaborative decision that can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or short coaching-style support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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