Ellysa Arias (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17+ years of experience working across systems and settings—from the streets to classrooms, emergency rooms to courtrooms. Her career spans macro and micro levels of care, including work in restorative and transformative justice, the NYC Department of Education, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, foster care, criminal justice, and both outpatient and inpatient mental health settings.

As Clinical Supervisor at Sol Health, Ellysa brings this breadth of experience to her mentorship of emerging therapists, offering clinical supervision that is rigorous, trauma-informed, and deeply human. She supervises 3–4 master’s-level interns each school semester and collaborates closely with academic institutions and community partners to ensure culturally responsive, high-quality care across New York and New Jersey.

Ellysa is an integrative practitioner whose framework draws from psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theory, somatic and trauma-focused modalities, as well as attachment and relational-cultural approaches. Her supervision approach is reflective and liberatory—fostering growth through curiosity, accountability, and self-inquiry. At the heart of her work is a belief in healing as reclamation: of voice, identity, safety, and possibility.