Elise Derevjanik, LMHC

Elise Derevjanik is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She commonly supports people dealing with parenting concerns, relationship strain, addiction, and perinatal issues such as pregnancy, postpartum, fertility challenges, and infant loss. Elise offers a warm, nonjudgmental approach and treats therapy as a team effort focused on practical change.

With 15 years of experience, Elise blends practical strategies and compassionate listening to meet each person where they are. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to address values, emotional patterns, and close relationships.

Sessions are shaped around concrete goals. Elise helps people develop manageable plans, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress over time. She pays attention to how family history, attachment, and life events affect current challenges and decision making.

People who come to Elise often want tools they can use right away, along with empathetic support for difficult feelings. She works to create a steady, supportive space for working through grief, identity shifts after becoming a parent, struggles with addiction, or ongoing mood and stress problems.

Elise sees clients in New York and offers multiple online formats for ongoing contact and check-ins. Her style aims to balance practical skill building with emotional understanding so clients can move toward clearer goals.

How therapy approaches translate online

Elise commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. ACT helps people clarify personal values and take committed steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult emotions.

Attachment-Based Therapy is also part of her toolbox for addressing relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current behavior. That work looks at connection, communication habits, and ways to build healthier emotional responses in close relationships. Elise discusses these approaches with each person and collaborates to choose which fits best for their goals.

Online formats support flexible care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to send brief updates, get coaching between sessions, or check in when a short exchange will help. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.