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Elise Derevjanik, LMHC

Based in New York Online sessions

Supportive counselor for parenting transitions

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Years in practice
15
Credentials
LMHC
Licensed in
New York
Languages
English
Focus
Stress, Anxiety
Focus
Family conflicts
Focus
Parenting issues
About

About Elise

Elise Derevjanik is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She greets each person with warmth and openness and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Many people find her approach useful when parenting feels overwhelming or when fertility, pregnancy, or postpartum issues affect mood and relationships.

Elise uses clear, collaborative work in sessions. She helps people set simple goals and practices they can try between meetings.

Background and approach

Her background includes supporting people through addictions, grief, trauma, and transitions into new roles like parenthood. She pays attention to how relationships and attachment patterns shape current struggles. Sessions draw from several evidence-informed methods such as acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based ways of looking at relationships, and cognitive behavioral techniques for managing thoughts and behaviors.

Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on what the person wants to change. Homework may include brief exercises, mindfulness practice, or communication experiments. Elise works with people facing fertility challenges, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and postpartum depression as well as those adapting to life after becoming a parent.

She also supports people dealing with mood disorders, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and substance use concerns. Her style aims to combine empathy with practical tools. Elise practices in New York as an NY LMHC - licensed mental health counselor.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through a mix of video, phone, chat, and messaging to fit different needs.

Focus areas and approaches

What Elise works with

Everything Elise lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Elise helps people with.

Approaches Elise lists

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Online support

Approach and online care for parenting and life transitions

Elise draws from acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based therapy, and client-centered therapy to guide online work. Acceptance and commitment ideas focus on clarifying personal values and practicing small actions that match those values even when difficult feelings show up. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current interactions and helps people build more supported ways of connecting. Client-centered therapy prioritizes listening, empathy, and following the person’s pace to ensure the work fits their needs.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Elise treats therapy as a collaboration and will help you choose methods based on your goals, daily routines, and what feels most useful. She offers brief practices and experiments to test what helps, then adjusts plans as progress is made.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or suit lower bandwidth needs, and chat or messaging work well for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to try different formats until you find what works.
Questions

Questions people ask about Elise

What concerns does Elise commonly address?

She helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strains, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma, grief, sleep and eating concerns, and addictions.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is warm and collaborative with an emphasis on practical steps. Sessions focus on clear goals, short exercises, and communication practice you can use between meetings.

What is her professional background?

Elise brings 15 years of clinical experience working with people through life transitions, perinatal challenges, mood disorders, and addiction-related concerns.

What credentials and location apply to her practice?

She is an NY LMHC, which stands for New York licensed mental health counselor, and she practices in New York.

In which languages are sessions offered?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

Which session formats are available?

Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.

How does cost and billing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to begin working together?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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