About Elise
Elise Derevjanik offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addictions, and life changes. She is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - based in New York. Elise explains things clearly and focuses on small, doable steps that fit each person's life.
Elise uses straightforward, collaborative work. She welcomes people during pregnancy and postpartum, and she supports those facing fertility challenges, pregnancy or infant loss, and adjustments to new parenthood.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize understanding what matters most to the client and building skills that make daily life easier. Her approach draws on acceptance and commitment techniques to help people notice what matters and take steps toward it. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to improve connection and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address hard moments in relationships.
Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to change unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. Over 15 years of practice have shaped her straightforward style. Elise aims to create a calm space where people can talk honestly and practice new behaviors between sessions.
She treats each person as an individual and adapts methods to fit their needs. Clients can expect clear goals, practical tools, and a focus on the small changes that add up. Elise centers compassion and acceptance while helping people move toward the life they want.
How Elise’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding connection patterns and how early relationships influence current reactions, which can help with intimacy issues and family dynamics.Finding the best approach is part of the process. Elise collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan if something isn’t working, so therapy stays focused and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins or when a shorter contact is helpful. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit sessions into work, parenting, or daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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