VIRTUAL/TELEHEALTH APPOINTMENTS ONLY

ANITA ELDERKIN, PhD, LCPC, NCC, CT

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Dr. Anita Elderkin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She has several years of experience working with adults regarding a variety of mental health and emotional problems. She is Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying, and Bereavement through the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), and as such specializes in all aspects of grieving, bereavement, and the dying process.  She has specific experience with bereaved parents and spouses.  Additionally, she has received extensive training in trauma-focused therapies including Narrative Exposure, Cognitive Processing, as well as Body-Brain Attunement from Dr. Bessel van Der Kolk. She applies these techniques to help facilitate recovery from traumatic experiences unique to each individual.  Dr. Elderkin also has specialized training and experience working with issues related to aging, chronic and terminal illness, and the impact of physical illness on mental health.

Dr. Elderkin helps facilitate personal growth through the implementation of a variety of evidence-based therapeutic techniques including mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, narrative therapy, meaning-making, and many others especially those related to cognitive behavioral therapy. She believes you are the subject-matter expert in your own life, and therefore are the most important aspect of the collaboration which occurs within the therapeutic process.

Dr. Elderkin earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology as well as her Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Walden University.  She competed both her pre and post-doctoral training right here in Boise, Idaho, and worked with a wide variety of client presentations, diagnoses, and symptoms. 

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Treatment Populations

  • Individual Therapy

  • Geriatric

  • Adults

  • Young adults age 18+ (bereavement only)

Focus of Treatment

  • Grief and Bereavement

  • Death and Dying

  • Suicide/Homicide Survivors

  • Gerontology/Aging

  • Life Changes/Adjustment

  • Chronic & Terminal Illness

  • Trauma

  • Stress Management

  • Mood Disorders

  • Relationship Issues