Najla Crawford, LPC

Najla Crawford is the Director of Behavioral Wellness at Wellness Elite Fitness in Friendswood, Texas, where she leads the club's behavioral wellness work. She is a Texas Licensed Professional Counselor (license number 87973) with clinical training in cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-informed approaches. Her work covers stress, sleep, anxiety, mood and executive performance, along with nervous-system regulation and the behavioral side of burnout.

She works with executives, founders and high-output operators, including people under heavy cognitive load from leadership work and people going through a transition. Her sessions draw on cognitive, person-centered and trauma-informed methods, chosen to fit each member rather than a single fixed protocol. She also provides behavioral after-care after GLP-1 medication, including food behavior after medication, and leads The Reset Cohort, a twelve-week closed-group program for six members at a time.

Sessions are private, held in a counsel room away from the gym floor and scheduled discreetly. She reads sleep and HRV signals from the recovery suite and coordinates with the coaching bench on training load, with Dana Kantara on cellular health, and with Dr. Swet Chaudhari when care is clinical. She is a counselor rather than a psychiatrist and does not prescribe medication, so referrals go to a psychiatrist or to Dr. Chaudhari when prescriptions are involved.