About Elissa
Elissa Baker is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Colorado with 17 years of experience. She focuses on creating an affirming, compassionate space for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. Elissa also offers support around relationship concerns and LGBT issues.
Her work often centers on attachment difficulties, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and the impact these have on current relationships. She helps people look at communication patterns, commitment worries, and the heavy feelings of guilt or shame.
Background and approach
Many clients come to her for help with body image, life purpose, and midlife transitions. Elissa also supports people dealing with addiction, caregiver stress, and the fallout from divorce or separation. She brings a steady, respectful presence when clients are sorting complicated choices around polyamory or non-monogamous relationships.
Practical skills and clearer boundaries are common focuses in her sessions. Her style is collaborative. She works with each person to set goals and try methods that fit their life and values.
Sessions can be straightforward and skill-focused, or more reflective depending on what someone needs. Elissa offers a range of remote session types to fit different schedules and preferences. She speaks English and practices from Colorado, drawing on nearly two decades of work helping individuals grow, cope, and find more satisfying ways to relate to themselves and others.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Work
Elissa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work online. One common approach focuses on improving communication and relationship patterns by helping people notice how they interact, practice clearer ways of speaking, and try new behaviors in safe steps. This is useful for commitment issues, communication problems, and relationship distress.She also draws on methods that help manage anxiety and depression through practical skills - for example breathing and grounding techniques, activity planning, and step-by-step coping strategies. These tools aim to reduce overwhelm and build day-to-day resilience for stress, low mood, and impulsivity.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help figure out what methods fit best based on a person's goals, history, and preferences. They will check in and adjust plans as needed so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular support. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between sessions, fitting around work, caregiving, and busy days.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English