Elissa Baldwin, PhD, LCSW (she/her) has been practicing for 23+ years in Durham, NC. She works with adults in individual psychotherapy, and provides treatment for adolescents, children, and their parents/caregivers. She also offers psychodynamic supervision and consultation to local clinicians.

Across her work, Dr. Baldwin is committed to affirming each person’s identities and lived experience, including LGBTQIA+ communities, neurodivergence, and those navigating cultural or systemic trauma. She draws on psychodynamic, attachment, and developmental frameworks, integrating her background in art and design with psychotherapy through the use of creative and reflective processes.  Her work is often enriched by visual thinking, creative process, and a sensitivity to symbolic communication—across the lifespan.

Dr. Baldwin earned her BLA from the NC State School of Design, her MSW from UNC–Chapel Hill, and her PhD from the Smith College School for Social Work. She completed post-graduate training in child/adolescent and adult psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas (PCC), where she now serves as Curriculum Chair and faculty member. She also helps to facilitate an ongoing study group on Race & Othering in Psychoanalysis and has been involved with the PCC’s Anti-Racism Task Force.

Dr. Baldwin is trained as a Circle of Security Parent Facilitator and holds a certificate in Advanced Clinical Supervision from Smith College. She has taught or advised at the PCC, the Smith College School for Social Work, and the UNC School of Social Work. She is a member of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis (ACP), where she currently serves on the Board as a Councilor.

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Anisha Tyagi, LCSWA (she/her) provides individual and group psychotherapy for children and their caregivers, adolescents, and adults. Her approach is trauma-informed, disability-affirming, and LGBTQIA+-affirming, shaped in part by her own lived experiences with marginalized identities. She offers therapy in both English and Hindi. 

Anisha is a graduate of Smith College (BA) and UNC Chapel Hill (MSW). She brings experience supporting adolescents in intensive outpatient settings, working with youth in schools, and integrating mindfulness into treatment of addiction behaviors (including smoking cessation). She is skilled in group and individual therapy, with particular interests in neurodivergence, family and relationship dynamics, minority stress, and chronic pain. She is also deepening her work in insight-oriented approaches and play therapy through ongoing supervision and training with Potential Space.

As an immigrant and child of immigrants, Anisha has lived in the U.S., India, and Indonesia, experiences that enrich her clinical perspective and cultural sensitivity. Her work is grounded in authenticity, curiosity, and respect for each person’s unique story. Outside of therapy, she enjoys reading character-driven fiction, spending time in nature, learning new languages, and connecting with loved ones around the world.