Elizabeth Saviteer, MS, LMHC, CN
Mental Health Counseling & Nutrition Support
Hello!
I help bright, highly sensitive young adults who feel like they are falling behind in life. Anxiety and ADHD have them dreading or avoiding almost everything in life from work to social events. They feel defective and discouraged.
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As a young adult you're constantly dealing with something new you weren't prepared for. From dating to college, money to roommates, you can feel excited and hopeful one minute, terrified and inadequate the next. If you're on the roller coaster of your 20s and you also struggle with anxiety or ADHD, that roller coaster can feel more like a haunted house.
If you're like most of my clients you feel ill-equipped to navigate adulting; you feel like every one else around you got a life manual and you missed out; you might even feel like there's something fundamentally wrong with you or your brain.
I'm here to tell you that you can learn the skills you need to:
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Crush negative self-talk,
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Face the things you're afraid of and move forward,
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Build healthy habits that your 40-year old self will thank you for
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Navigate dating and new relationships without losing yourself.
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Yes, you will have to work for it, but you've already proven you can do hard things! I'm here to be your teacher/guide/mentor/cheerleader and (dare I say) cool aunt? My personality is gentle, encouraging & honest. We'll laugh, we'll cry, you'll get better.
What to Expect
From our first meeting to graduation
1. Free initial consultation: We'll meet for about 30 minutes to give us each a chance to make sure I'm the right fit for you. I'll ask you questions about yourself, your life and what brings you to counseling. I'll describe how my approach would help your specific situation. No pressure, no sales.
2. If you want to move forward I'll have you fill out some paperwork that will give us a measurement of your baseline symptoms.
3. I'll recommend a book or podcast or my free online course (whichever you prefer) to add structure & educational elements between sessions. On average clients spend 15 minutes/day on "homework".
4. We begin! You'll choose an area that you'd like to work on first (I'll help you if you're stuck). I'll always start by offering you empathy, deep listening, and compassion. Once you feel fully heard and understood, then I'll show you a roadmap for how we tackle that problem. I'll walk you through the techniques that you'll use to change your negative thoughts, feelings, motivation, and actions.
5. Over the next sessions we'll keep using different techniques until you arrive at the shift you're looking for. We'll stick with one problem area until we've resolved it.
6. Once you've achieved the change you wanted we can work on the next problem or you can finish therapy and go live your life with the tools you learned.
Let me introduce myself
I've been where you are. I jokingly say I had a quarter-life crisis when I was 22, but it wasn't funny when I felt like my life was out of control. Over the next decade I worked to gain control over my thoughts, feelings and behavior. I went to grad school to become a counselor. And afterwards I continued my training until I found an approach that not only helped me put the missing pieces in place, but that I knew would help my clients. Now, in my mid-forties, I certainly don't have all the answers, but I have figured a few things out! Let me show you a short cut to a life with more self-acceptance, satisfaction, and peace.
