Elisa Dorrough-Ewing, LCSW

Elisa Dorrough-Ewing is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on mood and relationship concerns, addiction, caregiver strain, and aging and geriatric issues. Elisa approaches work with warmth and respect and treats people without judgment.

She trained at the University of South Florida and holds a Master of Science in Clinical Social Work. Her background includes inpatient care, outpatient community mental health, private practice, and home health settings. This range of experience informs how she sees each person as an individual with strengths to build on.

Elisa uses a client-centered, strengths-based style. That means sessions start with the client’s goals and priorities. She listens first, then offers practical tools and ideas that fit everyday life.

Clinical methods she commonly integrates include cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity, emotionally-focused approaches for relationship concerns, and motivational interviewing for change around substance use or habits. She adapts tools to what each person needs.

People can expect compassion, steady presence, and straightforward guidance during sessions. Video is highlighted as especially useful for the work, though phone and text communication are also mentioned as ways to connect.

Elisa emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s pace. She helps people set clear goals, try small changes, and build on successes over time.

How Elisa integrates therapy approaches online

Elisa blends a few practical approaches to help with everyday struggles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on meeting the person where they are and following their goals, offering a respectful, listening-first stance that helps people feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and uses exercises to change patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotional experience and connection, helping people name and shift feelings that underlie relationship and intimacy concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Elisa will collaborate to identify which methods match the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time rather than sticking to a single method, and clients participate in choosing what to try.

Video sessions are noted as especially helpful for building the therapeutic relationship, and she also mentions phone and text as additional ways to communicate. If you want to confirm what session formats are currently offered, please check before scheduling. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time while keeping regular momentum toward goals.