Salisa Garrand

Salisa Garrand is a New York licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and maternal mental health challenges. She focuses on practical, steady support for people navigating painful life changes like divorce and separation. Her style centers on listening, building strengths, and helping clients take small steps toward feeling more capable.

Garrand’s work reflects four years of clinical experience in community and outpatient settings. She draws on a trauma-informed, holistic outlook that looks at emotions, relationships, and everyday routines. Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now and on skills people can use between meetings.

She aims to create a calm space where clients can name painful experiences and practice different ways of responding. She emphasizes the client’s own knowledge of their life and priorities rather than offering quick fixes. Conversations often include gentle reflection, problem-solving, and planning doable changes.

Garrand is attentive to issues that commonly follow separation and loss, including attachment wounds, guilt, shame, and isolation. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, postpartum concerns, panic, and self-harm thoughts by helping them build coping strategies and clearer routines.

Sessions are conducted in English and follow the therapist’s New York LMHC credential. To begin a match, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire then schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online sessions

Salisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and healing. One common approach is trauma-informed care, which helps people name traumatic reactions, build safety in daily routines, and practice grounding skills to reduce distress. Another familiar element is skills-based work for anxiety and depression, teaching simple tools for managing panic, mood shifts, and overwhelming thoughts.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative decision-making helps tailor sessions so they feel useful from the start.

Confirm the exact session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time and allowing sessions during work breaks or between errands. It can also let someone use shorter check-ins when days are hectic, or avoid being on camera when that feels draining. Licensed professionals aim to adapt pacing, homework, and session length so therapy fits practical life demands rather than the other way around.