About Elise
Elise Derevjanik is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience in New York. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship struggles, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD. Elise emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental approach and treats therapy as a collaborative process focused on each person's goals.
Elise spends time listening and helping clients name what matters most to them. She uses clear, practical tools alongside conversations about feelings and values.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match each person's needs and comfort level, with an emphasis on small, doable changes. She has particular experience supporting people through pregnancy, postpartum adjustments, fertility challenges, and pregnancy or infant loss. Elise helps new parents adapt to shifting roles and identity while addressing mood and relationship stressors that often accompany that period.
Her work also includes support for people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, and career questions. Elise supports those coping with substance use concerns, compassion fatigue, and questions of life purpose. In sessions she draws on evidence-informed approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and attachment-focused methods.
Clients can expect practical skills, reflective conversation, and a steady focus on values and relationship patterns as they move toward their goals.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward a life that feels meaningful despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It often involves values-based actions, mindfulness exercises, and practical experiments to test new behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, using skill practice, structured reflection, and problem-solving to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns carried from early life and helps people notice how those patterns affect current relationships and reactions, with a focus on building more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elise will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She often blends techniques to meet immediate needs while building longer-term insight and change.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins, brief coaching, or supplemental support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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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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