Elevate Counseling and Psychological Services, LLC

06/09/2025

06/02/2025

Look no further than Elevate Counseling and Psychological Services for holistic and evidence-based approaches to your emotional well-being. Reach out to book a consult today!

05/12/2025

Happy Mother’s Day! In honor of National Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month and Mother’s Day, this is a reminder that taking care of yourself is the gift your children need most. Elevate Counseling and Psychological Services can provide services and resources to help you start prioritizing your well-being and giving back to yourself. Contact drknight@helpfromelevate.com or visit helpfromelevate.com for more information.

04/29/2025

April is National Counseling Awareness Month. Counseling can help us explore and learn to cope with uncomfortable feelings, modify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and improve our ability to communicate with others. Elevate Counseling and Psychological Services, LLC offers both virtual and in-person counseling sessions for individuals and couples. If you are considering counseling and would like to learn more, reach out to Dr. Knight at drknight@helpfromelevate.com.

04/22/2025

03/04/2025

03/04/2025

A report by the Health Foundation looks at a range of data sources, including self-reported surveys, screening tools and clinical diagnoses and finds more than 10% of working-age people are reporting signs of poor mental heath.

01/03/2025

The first few months of the new year, countless clients share with me frustrations about foiled new year's resolutions. Here are a few reasons they can be hard to keep and ways you can fix them to make them stick. This applies to goals you set at any time of the year!
• Your goals were too vague.
*•*A good example here is "I will eat healthier"...you start out with the best intentions, but without specifics, it becomes very easy to bend the rules. You go from a morning smoothie, salads, lean plant-based protein and healthy fats to justifying pizza as a health food because of the tomato sauce real quick! Instead, be specific. "I will eat 3 or more servings of vegetables daily." • Your goals goals didn't account for curveballs life can throw at you.
*•*A good example is something like, "I will run for thirty minutes every day." Why is that unreasonable?
Because life gets in the way! You get the flu, you twist your ankle, you go on vacation, you have to meet a work deadline--all of these things can make your goal hard to achieve regularly. Once you haven't been able to maintain your goal for a few days or weeks, you are more likely to give up. Instead, leave yourself some wiggle room to account for lifes ups and downs: "I will exercise 3 times weekly for 30 minutes or more."
• Your goals were unreasonable.
*•*A good example of aiming too high is when you go from 0 to 100. If you don't exercise at all, making a goal to exercise for an hour 5 days a week is bound to fail because it is too much of a jump, leaving you feeling like you're falling and eventually giving up. Instead, recognize your limitations and work up to your goals.
Remember, you can always revamp them a few months in if you want to push yourself more.
•You had too many goals to put effort into all of them.
*•*Having 10 resolutions or goals is often too much to keep track of. If you want to have success with your goals, start with 1 to 3 you are really passionate about working on and focus on those.
• Your thinking was too black and white.
*•* If you don't meet your goal one day, don't just throw in the towel. Every day is a new opportunity!