About Elise
Elise Derevjanik is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to make daily life feel more manageable. Elise presents a calm, nonjudgmental presence and works collaboratively to set goals that fit each person's situation.
Many clients come for help with parenting challenges, relationship strain, or addiction concerns.
Background and approach
She also has extensive experience with pregnancy and the postpartum period, fertility struggles, and pregnancy or infant loss. Elise supports people adjusting to new roles after a birth or coping with the emotional fallout of reproductive loss. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment strategies with cognitive behavioral tools and emotion-focused attention to patterns in relationships.
Attachment ideas inform how she thinks about closeness and communication. Sessions center on real skills people can use between appointments. Elise explains techniques in plain language and helps build manageable practices for stress management and better sleep.
She emphasizes small, steady changes that add up over time. Progress is measured by what improves in daily life rather than labels. Based in New York with a New York licensed mental health counselor credential, she offers sessions in English.
People who want a collaborative, warm, and practical approach will find her straightforward style easy to work with.
How her approaches translate to online work
Elise often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making meaningful life changes. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood or insomnia.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice and emotional check-ins. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people touch base between longer sessions or use brief, focused support during a busy day. These options help therapy fit into real life and daily schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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