Her Story
About Chellie
Chellie Adler, LPC, ADHD-CCSP, ASDCS, is an Empowerment Facilitator, licensed mental health counselor, and speaker based in the New York City metropolitan area. Through her work with Everlasting Wellness LLC, she supports women—particularly those who are late-diagnosed with ADHD and Autism Spectrum traits—in understanding their experiences through a lens of empowerment, self-compassion, and sustainable mental health. Her approach blends clinical insight with coaching and education, helping clients and organizations better understand burnout, emotional regulation, and the systemic pressures that shape mental well-being.
Chellie’s career spans more than three decades across psychology, education, and clinical mental health. She began in research psychology and higher education, teaching at multiple community colleges while working in psychological assessment and behavioral analysis. After stepping away from her career to care for her family through significant health challenges and personal loss, she later returned to the field with a renewed purpose—earning her clinical mental health counseling credentials and becoming licensed in 2023. These lived experiences deeply inform her understanding of caregiving, invisible labor, and the emotional toll of responsibility.
Today, Chellie works at the intersection of therapy, advocacy, and empowerment psychology. She facilitates conversations, trainings, and talks that help individuals and organizations recognize burnout as a systemic issue rather than an individual failure. Specializing in neurodiversity in women and midlife transitions, she is passionate about helping clients release long-held shame, reconnect with their strengths, and build more sustainable, authentic ways of living. Her work is grounded in the belief that healing happens not only through coping, but through understanding, connection, and systemic change.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Chellie
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to failure, and not being afraid of it. I have failed a million times, and I welcome failing, because I feel like I have learned so much more from things that I considered a failure that ultimately turned into growth edges and ways to either improve myself or improve an occupational situation, the situation for someone else. Every failure, every trigger is an opportunity. Success is born from failure.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've ever received is: Don't be afraid to dream big. Your dreams should be so big they scare you. This advice has guided me throughout my career transitions and helped me take bold steps, like going back to school at 50 and building both a therapy practice and a coaching business.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
My advice to young women entering this industry is: Stay true to yourself, and what is guiding you, because no one else knows what that is. A lot of other people are going to have opinions and thoughts and feelings about it, and receiving them is okay, but staying true to yourself is paramount. We live in a world of men, and we've learned how to speak men and act men, but we aren't men. We don't think and move in the same way that men do. It's like another language that we have been forced to learn how to speak, but you must stay true to who you are.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge I face in my field right now is reach, being able to reach the clients that I want and support the clients that I want, particularly for my coaching practice. Because I don't want to live on social media, I don't want to learn about search engine optimization and website development. I much prefer face-to-face interaction and am much better in social interactions face-to-face. Unfortunately, in our ever-increasingly individualized world, people are not ready to just say, oh yeah, sure, I'll meet up, no big deal. There needs to be a lot of email back and forth, and they want to watch your TikToks and your YouTube videos and the virtual conferences. That is a challenge for me, because I do not enjoy it as much as I enjoy that interpersonal connection. But you've got to make the connection to enjoy the interpersonal connection.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Authenticity is the most important value to me, both professionally and personally. Being your authentic self is paramount in how you show up. You do not have to be your fully unmasked self in every situation, but you should be yourself. You should not be putting on airs and pretending to be someone other than exactly who you are, because who you are is the most precious thing you can be. When people don't know who they are, that's a tragedy all around.
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