About Jocelyn
Jocelyn Elliott is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience based in Kansas. She focuses on building a calm, affirming space where people can talk about identity, relationships, and the stresses of everyday life. Jocelyn prefers clear, direct conversation and practical next steps over long lectures or academic language.
She helps people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addiction, grief, and trauma. Jocelyn also supports those working through parenting strain, family problems, intimacy issues, career questions, and questions about gender or sexuality.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at understanding what matters most and finding small, doable changes. Her style blends structured tools and emotional work. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach new skills.
Emotionally-focused and mindfulness-based methods help people name feelings and shift difficult patterns. Jocelyn often helps clients untangle communication problems, codependency, and patterns tied to family of origin or abandonment. She also addresses concerns around body image, kink and alternative sex culture, and life purpose.
Work in therapy moves at a pace the person feels comfortable with. People who prefer an approachable clinician who pairs skills training with reflective conversation may find her a good fit. Jocelyn describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are adjusted as progress unfolds.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. It’s useful when someone wants concrete tools to manage symptoms and change routines.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those techniques can help when strong emotions, anger, or relationship conflicts get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow conversation that feels close to in-person sessions. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates or get coaching between sessions and can fit around work or parenting demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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