- stress and anxiety
- addictions and recovery
- sexuality and intimacy
About Eli
Eli Manata Sloan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with four years of clinical experience. Eli offers therapy in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese and focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes.
Eli works with people dealing with relationship rupture, questions of identity and gender, religious trauma, and substance use. They invite clients to bring sexual and relational concerns into sessions, including kink and alternative sexual cultures. Eli also supports people facing attachment and abandonment wounds, family of origin problems, body-image struggles, codependency, and blended family challenges.
Their approach blends expressive arts and internal system ideas to help people notice different parts of themselves and how those parts respond to guilt and shame. Sessions may include creative activities, talk, and gentle exploration of patterns that keep someone stuck. Eli names sexual health and intimacy as part of the work when those topics come up.
When working with couples, Eli describes using a Gottman-informed lens to strengthen connection, plan a separation with care, or manage uncoupling. They also receive sex-therapy supervision from an AASECT-certified supervisor and frame sexual conversations through a multicultural, social-justice, and sex-positive perspective.
Eli offers virtual sessions across Florida and welcomes people who prefer to include expressive practices. People often begin by completing a short questionnaire and scheduling a first session so Eli can learn what brought them in and what to focus on next.
Therapeutic techniques and online sessions
Eli integrates expressive arts into talk therapy, using creative activities to help people show and name feelings that are hard to put into words. This approach can be helpful for trauma, identity questions, and emotions tied to guilt or shame.They also use IFS-informed parts work, which helps people notice inner parts that carry blame, fear, or protectiveness and learn new ways to relate to those parts. This method is often used when relational patterns or attachment wounds are at issue.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work and is decided together. Eli will listen to what you want to change, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the approach based on what helps most over time.
Practical benefits of online sessions include easier scheduling and fitting therapy into a busy week. Because Eli offers virtual sessions throughout Florida, clients can book sessions without travel and may find it simpler to add brief check-ins or regular appointments to a weekday routine. Confirm current session options before booking so you know which online formats are supported.
Areas of expertise
Additional focus areas
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does Eli address?
Eli works with stress, anxiety, addictions, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment, body image, codependency, and family of origin problems.
How would Eli approach feelings of guilt or shame?
They use expressive arts and IFS-informed parts work to help people notice the parts that hold shame and how those parts affect behavior. Conversations can include practical steps and creative exercises to make those patterns easier to recognize.
How much clinical experience does Eli have?
Eli has four years of experience as a clinician working with a range of relational and identity-focused concerns.
What credential does Eli hold and where are services offered?
Eli is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida and offers virtual sessions throughout the state.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Can people outside the US work with Eli?
International clients are not currently accepted; Eli provides virtual sessions to people located in Florida only.
What should I expect about session formats?
The biography lists virtual sessions throughout Florida; confirm current session options before booking to know whether phone or video is used.
How do I begin working with Eli?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session to get started.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.