Elisa Mantel-Smith, LCSW-R

Elisa Mantel-Smith is a licensed clinical social worker based in New York who brings a decade of experience supporting individuals, families, and groups through significant life challenges. She earned a master of social work degree from Columbia University and holds an LCSW-R, which is the New York license for clinical social work practitioners. Elisa has worked extensively with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, grief and parenting concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and body-image issues, and other life transitions.

Her practice emphasizes meeting people where they are and building a collaborative, authentic therapeutic relationship. Elisa integrates client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral, emotionally-focused, solution-focused, and trauma-focused approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs. She aims to create a supportive space where practical skills, emotional processing, and relational repair can all be explored, helping clients develop coping strategies and clearer paths forward. Her background includes work on health and fertility topics as well as adoption and foster care related concerns, and she draws on that experience to address complex, interconnected issues in therapy.

Elisa’s style is grounded, empathetic, and goal-oriented, focused on helping people navigate change and build more resilient ways of living and relating.