Licensed psychoanalyst with 24 years of experience.
I work with people who struggle with high anxiety, self esteem and self worth issues, people who grew up in an emotionally toxic environment.
I have experience helping people who are or have been in a relationship with a narcissistic partner or who were part of an environment that made them feel suffocated and not being seen.
Patients who were exposed to a emotionally toxic environment can feel how it freezes their emotional growth. Working on liberating one's psyche one realizes how resiliency sets in helping to brave inner toxicity daily. It's a quiet strength that appears as emotional growth proceeds.
I use a psychodynamic approach, I admire the work of Philip Bromberg, Donald Winnicott, Francoise Dolto, Paul Claude Racamier, Christopher Bollas. During a session I focus on identifying dynamics, if I may say so, they appear as emotional footprints. A patient who feels controlled by their emotions gradually acquires tools to manage and understand their suffering in order to obtain more emotional freedom.
Professional experience
24 yrs in practice
Stress, AnxietyRelationshipsTrauma, AbuseDepressionCoping with life changes
Additional areas of focus:Family conflicts, Grief, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Body image, Cancer, Codependency, Communication problems, Control issues, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Trichotillomania, Visually impaired
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Dr. Elena is amazing at what she does.
She is genuine, unafraid to call out where most will dance around and so with kindness.
Most importantly she is good at listening and quick to understanding what might be at play where you need help.
I’m so glad I met her.
Written on Nov 04, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 6 months on issues concerning relationship issues, grief, and coping with life changes
Elena has been a godsend! She’s a true professional and knows how to get to the root of a problem. I can’t recommend her enough!
Written on Oct 27, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 3 weeks on issues concerning addictions, and relationship issues
She is the best!
Written on Aug 04, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, coaching, and compassion fatigue
Wonderful experience! I am more aware of myself and how to manage my emotions and to allow other's to carry their own load as well as carry my own! Hallelujah!
Written on Jul 30, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 5 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes
Elena is clearly a dedicated professional who brings calming patience, caring support, and wise insights. Helpfully challenges me into a more healed version of myself. Forever grateful.
Written on Jul 20, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, self esteem, anger management, and coping with life changes
Elena is a great listener with a strong empathy and emotional intelligence
Written on Jul 08, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 1 year and 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Elena is very sweet listens and offers the best advice 10/10
Written on Jun 28, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and adhd
Elena has helped me soooo much through our time working together. She’s truly amazing at what she does and she really cares. She’s super supportive and always checks up on me. I am forever grateful for the growth I’ve experienced through my sessions with her.
Written on Jun 03, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 1 year and 3 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Elena is very caring and respectful. Makes you feel welcomed and seen.
Written on May 11, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
Your service was of immense help to me, and it had an impact on my day-to-day activities and how I handled myself. Elena was just what the dr. ordered. It is a great fit and she really gets me and helped me more than I could put in words. People don't understand general anxiety until you are in the middle of it itself. She was able to put me on a path that has changed my life forever. I am so blessed that my daughter told me of this service.
Written on Apr 02, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, and sleeping disorders
Elena is a very professional and very knowledgeable therapist. She is helping me to navigate the difficult living situation I have now. She gives me practical advice that I use daily to overcome my fears and progress in the right direction. I am very grateful with her for all she does. Even after the session is over she still sends me messages with a lot of valuable information that is very useful for me.
Written on Feb 02, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 4 weeks on issues concerning trauma and abuse
Elena has been such an amazing help to help me focus on the key things I needed to focus on. I would highly recommend her services to anyone and will.
Written on Feb 01, 2025 after therapy with Elena for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, family conflicts, and parenting issues
After over a year I'm just as pleased and grateful for her insights and continuous support!
Written on Dec 12, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 1 year and 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and intimacy-related issues
BetterHelp is extremely fortunate to have A psycho analyst with her experience and knowledge base. Her insights have been so profound, I’ve never had therapy like this in my life I am so happy to finally learn how to do the work.
Written on Nov 26, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 4 months on issues concerning trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, coaching, and adhd
Elena is compassionate and knowledgeable. She has helped me navigate my issues and her suggestions have worked extremely well for me.
Written on Nov 04, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 6 months on issues concerning relationship issues, family conflicts, and intimacy-related issues
Elena is super helpful with her skills of identifying the underlying layers of an issue, providing simple solutions and with providing emotional and symmpathetic support!
Written on Oct 13, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 4 months on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, and adhd
I'll never be able to express how much my therapy with Elena has changed my life. Elena not only has incredible skills, she's also passionate. Her listening, advice and approach to my traumas have allowed me to be a totally different person. Thank you Elena.
Written on Oct 06, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 8 months on issues concerning relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, and adhd
Elena is really a good listener and can provide great advice
Written on Sep 28, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, and adhd
She’s been great! i’ve been able to understand more things about myself through talking with elena and by doing this it’s a good start for me taking therapy.
Written on Aug 30, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, and self esteem
Elena is insightful and profound, she is the best therapist who instills mindfulness while being the most compassionate person ever. I’m so grateful to have her in my corner.
Written on Aug 13, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and family conflicts
I like the matter of fact approach. I was looking for objective insight and received it immediately, just validating that I’m on the right track. Elena has knowledge and humor, making me feel comfortable right away.
Written on Jul 24, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 3 weeks on issues concerning relationship issues, and coping with life changes
Wonderful therapist that replies right away
Written on Jul 17, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and adhd
She is amazing
Written on Jul 08, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, self esteem, coping with life changes, and adhd
Elena is very supportive and helpful. I’m glad to have her as my therapist! She provides great insights that help me understand what can be causing the things that trouble me and how I can best approach them.
Written on Jun 29, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue
Elena is simply amazing.
Written on May 18, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, coaching, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Elena has to be the first therapist to truly deconstruct even the most simple of my memories into meaning. I strongly believe in her education and experience, which has brought me great insight.
Written on May 01, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Elena has been a blessing. I never knew what was happening to me in my marriage but she never made me feel uncomfortable and just helped me in my journey. Providing me with the tools to start my recovery. I have been looking for this type of help for quite a while and it is finally here. I'm healing and can see it changing my life.
Written on Apr 27, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 months on issues concerning trauma and abuse, and bipolar disorder
I been to enough therapy where I know I feel comfortable where I’m not disassociating or feel like I being rude to just because I don’t understand the person view on certain context . She’s very warming and funny . She doesn’t cast judgement but lends a hand in showing specific thought patterns and actions in general . I’ve always felt I couldn’t really communicate to people based off the fact a lot of people can’t grasp perspective or any common knowledge at but I get that with Elena .
Written on Mar 10, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, self esteem, anger management, and career difficulties
Elena has helped me so much! From uncovering my childhood to pushing through difficult situations as an adult, she has offered different perspectives that have really helped me understand things better. I took a break from therapy and have wanted started up again but only if it was with her, she’s great at what she does!
Written on Feb 23, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, self esteem, and coping with life changes
Everything you read on her is accurate. She is easy to talk to and keeps things in a manner that makes you feel comfortable.
Written on Feb 07, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd
Elena is in tune with my needs and questions. She prepares our meeting ahead of time based on the material we discussed in previous sessions. This is Freudian style therapy, so the point is not to get quick tricks, but to go deeper to get the underlying motives to my actions. As such, Elena is fun and insightful. Her ideas give me material to think for the week.
Written on Feb 07, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, grief, intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes
Elena is very easy to talk to and is very insightful. She is teaching me so much and had given me that little push to dive in. Elena is great!
Written on Feb 05, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, anger management, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Mindblowingly talented and insightful therapist.
Written on Feb 02, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and adhd
I'm so grateful I took a leap of faith signing up for Better Help so Elena and I could meet. I knew instantly I could trust her expertise. Her excellence is the perfect combination of experience, education, wisdom, kindness, humor and harmony with the larger world. She helped me recognize the need to confront a hard decision and feel confident I was doing the right thing.
It was nothing short of wonderful to be in her care. I highly recommend taking the leap and unpacking the gift that is Elena!
Written on Jan 30, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, family conflicts, grief, and compassion fatigue
Elena is amazing, wonderful and caring. She is great at listening to me. I never feel judged. We talk about so many things there's times we talk and I want to cry because we are making breakthroughs and other times we get to have a laugh. She's has been so supportive with the growth I've made in short amount of time. I always look forward to talking to her.
Written on Jan 19, 2024 after therapy with Elena for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Elena is bubbly, happy and easy going. She is very easy to talk to and explains things to me in a way that makes sense for me.
I went into this not knowing what to expect, I was afraid to speak about certain things for fear of the response I may get but no matter what I say or how I say it I have never felt judged, belittled or unimportant.
She has this natural way of genuinely caring. She pays attention and remembers the small details which come up weeks later and can be linked to current events or behaviours.
No topic or problem is too big or too small and she always replies far quicker than I think is possible, especially considering we are in opposite time zones.
Overall I can honestly say Elena has and is making a huge difference in my life and helping me through a lifetimes worth of emotional and mental damage
Written on Dec 31, 2023 after therapy with Elena for 4 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and adhd
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