- Perinatal support
- Life transitions
- CBT and ACT
About Elise
Elise Derevjanik is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, parenting challenges, and life changes. Elise also supports people coping with addiction, perinatal concerns around pregnancy and postpartum, fertility and pregnancy loss, and questions of life purpose.
Elise uses straightforward, collaborative sessions to help people sort through what feels most pressing. She listens for practical patterns and offers tools from approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based practices. Sessions often include focused conversations about daily routines, communication, and ways to manage mood and worry.
Her work includes attention to attachment and relationship dynamics. That can look like mapping how early family experiences shape current interactions. It can also mean problem solving around blended family issues, fatherhood questions, or adoption and foster care concerns.
Elise brings experience supporting people through fertility challenges, pregnancy and postpartum adjustment, and grief after infant loss. She also addresses sleep and eating concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and burnout or compassion fatigue related to caregiving roles and helping professions.
People meet with her to clarify next steps after job or relationship changes, to manage symptoms of mood disorders including bipolar, and to develop coping skills for ADHD, substance use, and compulsive patterns. She focuses on practical interventions and clear, collaborative planning to help people move forward one step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches and what online sessions look like
Elise commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and attachment-based ideas in her work. CBT focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep stress and mood problems going, then testing small changes to those patterns. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship experiences affect current connections and helps people rewrite unhelpful interaction habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, and then choose techniques together. That collaborative process helps shape whether therapy leans toward skills practice, emotion-focused conversations, or exploring relationship patterns.
Confirm the specific online session options before booking, since formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer alternatives if being on camera is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT exercises, ACT strategies, and attachment-focused conversations to virtual sessions, and Elise will help decide what approach and session rhythm fit best for everyday life.
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Experience
15+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and relationship issues, addictions, perinatal concerns, grief, life purpose questions, and related areas such as sleep, eating, and anger.
How would she approach feeling stuck after a big change?
She uses collaborative, practical conversations and draws on methods like CBT and ACT to identify patterns and try small, actionable steps toward change.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of clinical experience working with adults on mood, relationship, and life transition issues.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a New York LMHC and practices with a focus on clients in New York.
Are sessions offered in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.