Salisa Garrand

Salisa Garrand is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and challenges after trauma. She also supports those dealing with parenting concerns and maternal mental health. Her work often addresses self-esteem, panic, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.

She draws on personal experience with these issues to create a calm space for people to talk through what feels hard. Salisa describes her style as holistic and trauma-informed, and she centers each person’s strengths when planning work together. She believes clients are the experts on their own stories and aims to help them grow resilience.

Sessions focus on practical steps that fit a person’s life. Conversations might include identifying patterns, building coping skills, and making small behavior changes that add up over time. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes and supports people through setbacks.

Salisa has four years of professional experience and holds the LMHC credential, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She works in English and practices in New York. People curious about starting can expect a collaborative, respectful approach that honors their goals and pace.

Her interests include addressing attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, postpartum depression, and the emotional fallout of separation and infidelity. She also helps with shame, guilt, self-harm thoughts, and strengthening self-love and connection.

How evidence-based methods guide online care

Salisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions in simple, practical ways. One common approach she relies on involves trauma-informed practices that help people safely process past hurts, learn to recognize triggers, and build steady coping routines. This can be useful for people managing post-traumatic stress, panic, or complex reactions after abuse.

Another frequently used approach focuses on skills for anxiety and depression. These methods break problems into manageable steps, teach breathing and grounding tools for panic, and look at small behavior changes to ease low mood and increase daily functioning. Such work often helps with self-esteem, isolation, and parenting stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made or new concerns appear.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific session formats before booking since none are listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let someone connect from wherever they feel most comfortable focusing on their work without needing to commute.