Elyse Daignault

Elyse Daignault is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) with 24 years of experience. She focuses on stress and practical ways to manage it, and brings a direct, down-to-earth style to sessions. Elyse combines straightforward talk with a sense of humor to help people get through hard moments.

She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy guides work on relationships and how emotions shape interactions. Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past hurts continue to affect daily life.

Elyse has worked with people who have lived with intense challenges, including mood disorders, obsessive behaviors, self-harm history, and repeated suicidal attempts. She also has experience supporting LGBTQ people and addressing eating and food-related issues and body image concerns. Her background includes long-term clinical work in Massachusetts settings over more than two decades.

In sessions she aims to be direct and practical. She helps people set small, doable goals and checks progress together. Elyse uses plain language and keeps the focus on what helps day to day.

People come for help with anxiety, depression, relationships, coping with life changes, parenting questions, and concerns about addiction or impulse behaviors. She works with emotional pain, grief, and adjustment issues and addresses intimacy and career concerns when they arise.

How Elyse's Approaches Translate to Online Work

CBT helps people notice and change thinking patterns and behaviors that get in the way. It often uses concrete exercises and homework to build new skills for anxiety, depression, and eating-related struggles.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on how emotions shape relationships and communication. It helps people identify core feelings, express them more clearly, and change interaction patterns that cause distance or conflict.

Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on the effects of past harm and on reducing its hold over daily life. It uses structured methods to process traumatic memories and to develop new coping strategies for triggers and flashbacks.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. That process includes trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins from different locations. They can also offer shorter or more frequent touchpoints when the situation calls for it, helping therapy fit into everyday life without needing major schedule changes.