Elaine Wilson

Elaine Wilson is a compassionate, trauma-informed Licensed Master Social Worker and Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 25 years of clinical experience helping adults, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges and 10 years as certified teacher serving on collaborative school teams focused on ADHD, Autism and learning disabilities interventions and parent-focused resources. She offers a warm, supportive, and strengths-based virtual space where clients can feel heard, respected, and encouraged as they work toward healing, resilience and greater life balance. Her background also includes inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, early childhood and foster care teenage services, private practice, and holistic support for clients dealing with their family challenges often associated with diminished self-esteem, grief, caregiving stressors, housing uncertainties, pregnancy distresses, and or addiction recovery.

By being flexible, open-minded and gaining clients trust and input during the healing process, her telehealth sessions will continue to evolve based upon best practices, and clients' needs and goals. As a trained provider working with military individuals and their families with young children and teenagers , she apply motivational strategies, reflective listening, and empowerment to help clients gain deeper insights to cope with military family life adjustments, depression, anxiety, or PTSD . Having lived in a few southern and northern states, being connected to a generation of military family members and working as a trained provider serving military individuals and their families, Elaine continue to respect each client's values, culture, faith, and perspectives that shape each client's life journey. Outside of her work, she look forward to family gathering as an active grandparent of one young grandchild who enjoys receiving her surprises and walking her Yorkshire Terrier. Look forward to be your supportive therapist.

Hello! Are you feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, restless, disconnected, sick and tired of worrying, challenged with hurdles of parenting, uptight or need to get your life back on track? Welcome to my visual space! My approach to therapy is to create a safe, non-judgmental telehealth virtual space, which include mutual collaboration, active listening, and evidence-based practices tailored with techniques based upon your unique needs, beliefs, faith, hopes, history and goals.

I combine compassionate listening with practical, trauma-informed lens and actionable strategies based upon clinical several principles, including Motivational Mindset, Strength-based Therapy, Brief or Solution-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Multi-system Family Therapy (MST), Parent & Child Focused Psychoeducation, Prepare & Enrich Pre-Marriage Counseling, Pediatric Counseling to help teenagers, adults and couples navigate through and manage challenges or adversities while fostering meaningful change toward inner healing, adolescent skill-building, resilience, holistic growth, happiness and whole-person wellness.

More importantly, as a therapist, I recognize clients as the expert on their own life and co-create treatment plan based on their needs, desired pace and goals as an individual or as a member of their family system.

Life will have challenges! Rest assured that help is available to support those who need help to manage personal difficulties or family life transitions.

I look forward to reaching out to you with reflective listening, inspiration, compassion, culturally focused and trauma-informed support. I'm available to be your caring, flexible and insightful therapist!

First session will be a warm verbal welcome of appreciation to you for taking an important step toward healing, inspiration and wellness. As we engage in your initial session, typically, it will include a process of completing informed consent paperwork, establishing mutual rapport, and facilitating a thorough intake assessments to briefly explore current challenges, gain insights into your history and jointly consider your initial treatment plan based upon your values, beliefs, faith, aspirations. and goals .

While reviewing essential paperwork, confidentiality policies and clinical expectations are essential processes, it is most important to provide a safe, trusting, respectful, trauma-informed, collaborative, affirming, and open-minded clinical space for my clients. Your Voice Matters!

You can look forward to flexibility as needed and focused attention on understanding what are important to you and your outlook moving forward with tailored action steps! Let's Explore Your Next Step Forward!