Elisa Dorrough-Ewing, LCSW

Elisa Dorrough-Ewing is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addictions. She draws on 23 years of experience to support those coping with life changes, relationship challenges, parenting strain, and work-related burnout. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.

Elisa uses a client-centered, strengths-based approach that starts where each person is. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set clear, manageable goals. Sessions emphasize building skills for emotion regulation, healthier communication, and better sleep when those are concerns.

Her background includes work across inpatient, outpatient community mental health, private practice, and home health settings. Elisa earned a Master of Science in Clinical Social Work from the University of South Florida in 2000 and holds a Florida LCSW license. That mix of settings gives her experience with both short-term and longer-term challenges.

In sessions she combines techniques such as cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, emotionally-focused interventions, and motivational interviewing. She explains ideas plainly and works with people to try approaches that fit their life. Video sessions are highlighted as helpful, and she also communicates by phone or text when needed.

Elisa frames therapy as a collaborative process. She supports clients as they try new ways of coping, rethink patterns, and pursue goals like improving mood, reducing substance use, or repairing important relationships.

Approaches that translate to online work

Elisa uses client-centered methods that focus on listening and collaboration; this means sessions often begin by identifying what the person wants to change and building goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete tools to notice and shift unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can be practiced between sessions to track progress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name core emotions and improve how they relate to others, which can be useful for intimacy and relationship concerns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elisa will discuss different methods and help decide what fits best based on a person’s goals, history, and daily routines. This is a collaborative process that may include trying more than one approach and adjusting as needed.

The original biography highlights video, phone, and text communication as options, so confirm current session formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They also let clients practice skills in real-life settings and bring questions from home, work, or caregiving routines directly into conversation.