About Elia
Elia Calderon is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She brings a calm, down-to-earth presence and aims to make conversations feel straightforward and practical for busy parents and adults.
Background and approach
She has worked in California schools and clinical settings for about 12 years, supporting students and adults through depression, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, and trauma. Her background includes helping people cope after physical injury or emotional abuse and supporting those facing compassion fatigue from caregiving roles.
In sessions she uses approaches drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused therapy, mixed with a humanistic outlook. That means she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and set concrete, do-able goals.
Conversations are tailored to each person’s situation rather than following a fixed script. Practical concerns like communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, or finding meaning in life are common topics she addresses.
She also supports parents navigating parenting challenges and people dealing with social anxiety or phobia. Elia emphasizes respect and compassion and avoids stigmatizing labels.
She works collaboratively to build steps that fit a client’s daily life, whether the aim is short-term problem solving or longer-term change.
How these approaches work online
Elia uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thoughts that make feelings worse and test small behavior changes. CBT sessions focus on breaking problems into manageable steps and trying practical strategies that can be used between meetings.She also uses solution-focused therapy to set clear, short-term goals and notice what is already working. This approach zeroes in on strengths and small changes that quickly move someone toward their goals.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Elia will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and tailor sessions to what fits best. That collaborative decision helps shape session structure and homework between meetings.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video works well for in-depth conversation and reading body language, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text are useful for quick check-ins or shorter updates. These options offer flexibility to schedule sessions around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English