Evidence-Based. Trauma-Informed. Built Around You.

Virtual therapy in Minnesota for ages 12 and up. Every service offered here is grounded in evidence-based approaches and adapted to the whole person — not a diagnosis, not a checklist.

Whether you're navigating OCD, trauma, ADHD, autism-related needs, or the aftermath of something that was done to you, the work is direct, practical, and tailored to what you actually need.

Individual sessions are 50 minutes, held virtually via a HIPAA-compliant platform. You don't need to arrive polished or prepared — sessions are designed to meet you where you are.

This is a good fit if you're a teen or adult dealing with anxiety, OCD, trauma history, emotional dysregulation, ADHD, or autism-related stress. Sessions are direct, structured when that helps, and flexible when structure gets in the way.

Elaina works with clients across Minnesota via telehealth. No commute, no waiting room.

OCD & Anxiety Support

OCD is not a personality quirk or a preference for tidiness. It is a neurological condition driven by intrusive thoughts and compulsive responses, and it responds well to a specific, evidence-based treatment: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).

ERP works by gradually exposing you to the thoughts, situations, or sensations that trigger anxiety — while practicing not engaging in the compulsion that usually follows. Over time, this reduces the power the obsession holds.

Elaina is ERP-trained and applies this framework to OCD, health anxiety, social anxiety, and related presentations. Sessions are structured, honest, and paced with your input.

Anxiety support more broadly draws on DBT-informed skills — emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and grounding — for clients whose anxiety doesn't fit the OCD pattern.

Trauma & PTSD Support

Trauma work doesn't require you to retell everything in detail. The goal is to build enough stability and capacity that you can function in your life without the past running it.

Elaina's approach to trauma starts with stabilization: identifying your window of tolerance, building grounding skills, and establishing the internal resources that make deeper processing possible — if and when that's right for you.

Modalities used include TF-CBT-informed approaches and DBT-informed emotional regulation skills. Elaina has EMDR training; however, EMDR processing is not currently offered. What is available: stabilization work, nervous system regulation, and window-of-tolerance-informed pacing.

This work is appropriate for adults and teens with complex trauma histories, single-incident PTSD, childhood trauma, or trauma resulting from interpersonal violence.

What's included:

• Stabilization
• Window of tolerance work
• TF-CBT-informed approaches
• DBT emotional regulation
• Trauma-informed pacing

ADHD & Autism-Informed Support

ADHD and autism are not problems to be fixed. They are ways of experiencing the world that come with real strengths and real friction — especially when systems around you weren't built with your nervous system in mind.

Support here is practical and individualized. That might mean working on emotional regulation, reducing shame around executive function challenges, navigating relationships and communication, or managing sensory and anxiety responses.

Sessions are direct and adapted to how you process. There is no script you're expected to follow, and no assumption that the goal is to appear neurotypical.

Elaina works with teens and adults. This work often overlaps with anxiety and trauma work — those areas are addressed together when relevant.

Survivor Support

Elaina's work with survivors of sexual assault and abuse is rooted in her background in child protection advocacy. That experience shaped a direct, non-sensational approach that centers your reality rather than the needs of an institution or a narrative arc.

You don't have to frame what happened to you in any particular way. You don't have to be at a certain stage of processing. Sessions can focus on stabilization, safety planning, managing intrusive symptoms, or whatever is most pressing right now.

This work draws on trauma-informed frameworks, DBT-informed skills, and a working understanding of the systems survivors often navigate — legal, medical, family, and institutional.

This service is available to teens and adults. If you're supporting a child survivor as a caregiver, see Parent & Family Systems Support below, or reach out directly.

Parent & Family Systems Support

If your teen is in individual therapy with Elaina, parent sessions can be a structured part of that work — coordinating how you respond to OCD behaviors at home, processing your own stress as a caregiver, or aligning on approach.

Family systems support is not couples therapy or family therapy in the traditional sense. It's practical: how do the people around a struggling young person show up in a way that helps rather than inadvertently maintains the problem?

This may include parent coaching, family communication work, or consultation around a specific situation — a diagnosis, a school issue, a trauma disclosure, or a crisis that the whole family is still absorbing.

Ready to Get Started?

If something here resonates, the next step is a brief consultation. No commitment required — just a conversation about whether this is a good fit.