Elise is a licensed professional counselor and certified hypnotist, providing services to children, adolescents and adults. She received her Master of Arts: Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Naropa University, with a specialization in Mindfulness-based Transpersonal Counseling; and her hypnosis certificate from the New England Thomas Institute of Hypnosis. 

Her goal is to create a therapeutic space where every client, of every identity and cultural background, can process healthier ways of coping. She offers an integrative approach which combines trauma-informed and mindfulness interventions to re-learn how to navigate relationships to self and others. She specializes in creating a safe space to process trauma-related disorders, depression, anxiety, body-focused repetitive behaviors, substance use, spirituality based concerns, and/or neurodivergence. 

If you identify as multicultural, are part of the LGBTQ+ community and/or feel that who you are differs from what society wants you to be, Elise welcomes and supports you fully.

Virtual therapy offered for those in Washington, DC, Tuesday through Saturday & In-person therapy to those who can drive into our Glover Park office on Wednesdays and Saturdays. 

Elise also offers services in French.

Fun Fact: Clyde, her rescue cat, might make an appearance in virtual sessions!

Elise Khanijao, MA LPC