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Elana Colton

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
New York

In-network with

Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna, Oscar (Optum), Oxford (Optum), Quest Behavioral Health, and United Healthcare (Optum)

Specializes in

Anxiety, Grief, Loss, OCD, Relationship Issues, Stress, and Trauma

Great to meet you!

I am an LCSW from Brooklyn, EMDR certified and somatic, DBT and CBT trained, among others. I became a social worker after being a teacher for several years as an outgrowth of real desire to help my students on a psycho-emotional level after seeing the distress some of them went through during the school day. However, that script was flipped completely once I began working in an outpatient setting where I found that my real skill is talk therapy!

A bit about my approach to therapy

I take an eclectic approach to providing therapy by drawing on multiple evidence based treatments to best tailor my approach with a client. It is my belief that incorporating techniques from across different modalities best addresses the client as a whole. I expect clients to show up to the best of their ability and ask and answer hard questions.

What you can expect from our first session

Clients can expect to benefit from concrete skill building, analysis and insight development. Using the modality of talk therapy, I will initially connect with you on a personal level by asking lots of questions, using humor :) and giving you the chance to ask questions about me and how I work. Once we get into it and you've let me know what you'd like to work on, we will devise the best treatment plan for you, together.


Elana's style is

Holistic
Warm
Direct

Insurance carriers Elana accepts

Aetna
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Carelon Behavioral Health
Cigna
Oscar
Oxford
Quest Behavioral Health
UnitedHealthcare

More about Elana

MSW (Master of Social Work) at Touro College Graduate School of Social Work
License type: LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) (New York)
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Languages: English
Works with: Adolescents, Adults, and Seniors
More specialties: Depression and Family Issues
Modalities: Schema, Humanistic, Exposure Response Prevention, Positive Psychology, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Trauma Focused CBT, Psychodynamic, Attachment Based, Strength-Based, Relational, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)