- Warm collaborative care
- Practical sleep strategies
- Perinatal and fertility focus
About Elise
Elise Derevjanik is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and relationship concerns. She welcomes people facing parenting and perinatal challenges, fertility struggles, and those adjusting to life after pregnancy or infant loss. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and she treats therapy as a collaborative process.
Clients can expect a calm, practical approach in sessions. Elise focuses on clear goals and small, doable steps. She listens closely, reflects what she hears, and offers tools people can use between appointments to improve sleep, mood, and day-to-day coping.
Her work draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally focused and client-centered approaches. That mix helps with mood concerns, relationship patterns, and forming new habits for rest and self-care. Conversations are grounded rather than overly theoretical.
Elise often supports people through life transitions such as becoming a parent, returning to work, or changing relationship roles. She also addresses addictions, grief, and issues around identity and self-esteem. Sessions emphasize practical strategies alongside understanding patterns that keep problems going.
People who choose her can expect respectful, direct feedback and a focus on skills that fit daily life. She helps clients shape goals and adjusts methods as progress unfolds. This practical focus aims to make change feel achievable one step at a time.
How Elise’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values, then taking small actions that matter. It helps when worry or unhelpful thoughts get in the way of sleep, parenting, or daily functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and offers concrete exercises to change night routines, mood, and habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and closeness, and can be useful when relationship stress or bonding after birth affects rest and wellbeing.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. That decision happens together and can shift as therapy progresses.
The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time, allowing quicker check-ins, and making scheduling more flexible around work or caregiving. It can also let people meet with a licensed professional from a different part of the city or state when that helps match needs and expertise.
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Experience
15+ years
Credentials
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns can Elise help with related to sleep?
She helps people with sleep problems alongside issues like stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and life changes. Practical habits and behavioral strategies are used to support better rest.
What is her general approach in therapy?
Elise takes a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach that blends acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally focused and client-centered work. She focuses on clear goals and practical steps clients can try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 15 years of clinical experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addictions, and life transitions.
What credentials and region are listed for this clinician?
She is credentialed as an LMHC and is based in New York.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
The original profile does not specify formats; please confirm current session options before booking to know whether online or in-person formats are available.
How is payment handled or what does therapy cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.