Biography

Dr. Elisabeth Sundermeier (she/her) is a licensed psychologist who completed her PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2000.  Philosophically she is an existentialist, meaning she helps clients find meaning in their pain as a way of overcoming it.  From a practical stance, she uses many tools to accomplish that end, including narrative and artistic techniques, CBT, ACT, and psychodynamic methods.  She is a safe ally for LGBTQ, first generation, non-traditional, disabled, and non-ethnic-majority students.  Her background includes 8 years as director of a college counseling center; 8 years working in a hospital setting with severe persistent mental illness, trauma, and bariatric surgery pre-/post-therapy; and 8 years in generalist positions in colleges in Rhode Island and Nebraska.  She sees great similarity in all of our humanity; so, she works with most types of presenting issues easily.  Some frequent types of issues on her case load have been trauma recovery, anxiety reduction, performance enhancement, depression, adjustment issues, communication/relationship issues, and stress management.  She completed a one-year training course in biofeedback at Kansas State University, and draws from that training frequently.   She loves music, hiking, nature, art, and family; and stays grounded by being around children and comedy as much as possible.