Elyse is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate, and has earned her Bachelors in Social Work from Dordt University in Iowa and her Masters in Social Work from UNC Chapel Hill. Elyse has a diverse background of experience, including working with teen survivors of human trafficking, helping to provide mental health support to East African refugees in Uganda, assisting in the care and wellbeing of teens in a psychiatric care, and providing crisis invention and support to people facing domestic violence. Elyse also provided arts-based individual and group therapy to children and adults with a variety of life experiences including persistent mental illness, mental and physical disabilities and those holding refugee status.

Elyse believes in creating strong therapeutic relationships that empower each individual wherever they are. She desires to co-create spaces of healing, safety, and freedom in an empathic, gentle and shame free manner. Elyse is committed to creating unique and individual spaces for each client that are centered around their strengths and needs. Elyse utilizes a variety of different approaches to best fit her client’s needs, including arts-based therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, strengths-based, trauma informed and person-centered. She specializes in working with children, anxiety, depression, trauma (including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) self-esteem, and behavioral issues (including Parent Child Interaction Therapy). Elyse wants each client to walk away with tools and skills that help them find the healing, hope and joy in life.