Elisa Mott Jones, Ed.S, LMHC, NCC, E-RYT 500, received her Masters of Education and Education Specialist degrees in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida in 2010. During her studies, she obtained a Certificate in Spirituality and Health and Arts in Medicine.  She holds the title of National Certified Counselor from the National Board of Certified Counselors and am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor  in the state of Florida.  
She was introduced to yoga in 2000, and after 5 years of practice, she decides to become a yoga instructor. Elisa graduated from Discovery Yoga’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program in St. Augustine, Florida in 2005. Then in 2015, she completed a 500 hour yoga teacher training at Downtown Yoga in Pleasanton, CA and is a 500-level, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500).  In 2015,  she also became a Reiki Master and has additional certifications in Restorative Yoga, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, YogaDance, KarmaKids Yoga, and Pilates. 

Beyond counseling and teaching, Elisa

writes about body image, eating disorders and yoga.  She co-authored “The Use of Holistic Methods to Integrate the Shattered Self,” a book chapter in the text book Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the research-practice gap, ( check it out) edited by Margo Maine, Beth Hartman McGilley and Doug Bunnell.  She authored “Client Perspectives on Strong, Restorative and Partner Yoga Classes”, a chapter in Carolyn Costin and Joe Kelly’s book Yoga and Eating Disorders. (check it out). 

Additionally, she presents nationally on the use of yoga in the treatment of eating disorders and body image issues and utilize yoga and movement in counseling centers and hospitals with adults, adolescents and children. At Kaiser Permanente’s eating disorder intensive outpatient unit in Walnut Creek, CA, as well as Center for Discovery's eating disorder and mood disorder intensive outpatient and partial hospitalizations programs in North Palm Beach, FL,  she led expressive movement and therapeutic yoga groups for adults and adolescents. 

She has offered Accepting Your Body’s Wisdom: Nutrition, Yoga and Body Image, a transformational workshop designed for woman who want to make peace with their bodies and their relationship with food.

She has choreographed and performed YogaDance and Acro-Yoga across the country and at national eating disorder conferences. Her artistic and expressive pieces express her experience as a woman, partner, daughter, yogi and dancer, and reflect her own journey to healing. 

She currently lives in Jupiter, Florida with her husband, Lewis Jones Psy.D and their two daughters. 

She offers workshops, groups and individualized sessions for those seeking freedom from anxiety, trauma, disordered eating and body image concerns.  

Elisa Mott Jones Ed.S, NCC, LMHC, E-RYT 500