Najla Crawford.
Behavioral work for high-functioning operators. Texas-Licensed Professional Counselor — read alongside the panel, the floor, and the recovery cycle, not in a separate room. Nervous-system regulation, state-shifting, and post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care.
Najla Crawford, LPC runs behavioral work for high-functioning operators at Wellness Elite Fitness in Friendswood, TX. As a Texas-Licensed Professional Counselor, she leads the practice on nervous-system regulation, state-shifting between sympathetic and parasympathetic on command, post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care, and the executive cognitive load of leadership work. She also leads The Reset Cohort — a twelve-week closed-group behavioral program for six members at a time. Najla coordinates with Dana Kantara on the cellular-health layer and Dr. Swet Chaudhari, MD when the picture goes clinical. Located at 104 Whispering Pines Ave, Friendswood, TX 77546, serving Pearland, League City, Webster, Clear Lake, and South Houston.
Behavioral work for high-functioning operators.
"Najla works with the part of you that already knows what to do and isn't doing it."
Najla Crawford runs the behavioral wellness arm at Wellness Elite Fitness. As a Texas-Licensed Professional Counselor, she is in scope to conduct assessment, counseling, and structured behavioral interventions for members whose stress, sleep, mood, food behavior, or cognitive load is the leading work. The practice is built around two ideas the rest of behavioral health tends to skip: nervous-system regulation as a measurable, trainable capacity, and post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care as the layer that holds when the medication stops doing the work.
The work is not more discipline. The work is reducing the inputs that own your attention.
The practice is built the same way the rest of WEF is built — programmed, on a cadence, and integrated with the cellular-health, training, and recovery layers. Members do not bring the mental side to a separate office on a separate day. Najla reads the same panel Dana reads, watches the same sleep and HRV signals the recovery suite produces, and coordinates with the coaching bench when the training load itself is the variable to adjust.
The Reset Cohort
Twelve weeks. Six people. One container.
The Reset Cohort is an twelve-week closed-group behavioral program built for six members at a time. Weekly 75-minute group session with Najla, alongside biweekly one-on-ones, integrated with Oura HRV data, Dana Kantara’s cellular markers, and Dr. Chaudhari’s clinical layer when indicated. The structure pulls from the parts of group behavioral work that have actually held — the weekly accountability cadence of the original group-meeting weight-loss programs (Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers), the cohort-container model of community-based behavioral programs (Renaissance Periodization, Function Health), and the small-group operator container that ships behavior change measurably.
Three tracks open at a time, mapped to the work members actually come in for:
- ·Stress Reset — nervous-system regulation, state-shifting on command, executive cognitive load. For the operator whose body has stopped switching off.
- ·Food Reset — post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care, food-noise-quiet but eating-at-11pm patterns, the behavioral substrate the medication never addressed.
- ·Weight Reset — weight-loss psychology integrated with the strength floor, DEXA, panel, and recovery cycle. The behavioral layer most weight-loss protocols skip.
Format: 12 weeks · 6 members per cohort · weekly 75-min group with Najla · biweekly 1:1 · integrated Oura/HRV + cellular markers + clinical layer when warranted. Cohorts run by enrollment window; ask Najla for the next opening at your scoping consult.
What Najla runs
The practice she leads.
Behavioral wellness at Wellness Elite Fitness is built around five strands of work. Members typically begin with the scoping consult; from there, Najla sequences the rest against the goal and the panel.
- I.Behavioral wellness consult — the first session. Scopes the picture, identifies whether short-cadence coaching or longer-arc work is the right fit, and sets the cadence.
- II.Nervous-system regulation & state-shifting — the trainable capacity to move between sympathetic and parasympathetic on command. Read against HRV, the recovery-suite signal, and the training load. The point is to stop treating mental load as a separate variable.
- III.Post-GLP-1 behavioral after-care — for members whose food noise quieted on tirzepatide or semaglutide but whose 11pm pattern stayed. The behavioral substrate the medication never addressed.
- IV.Executive cognitive load — the specific weight that comes with leadership work. How to carry it without it carrying you.
- V.Cross-team coordination — works alongside Dana and Dr. Chaudhari so the cellular, behavioral, and clinical layers answer the same question rather than three separate ones.
How the practice sits
Three layers, one practice.
The cellular layer is Dana. The clinical layer is Dr. Chaudhari at the adjacent Elite Aesthetic MD. The behavioral layer is Najla. The three practices are run distinctly — by license and by scope — but coordinated by design, because the member is one person and the work needs to read like one practice.
Members on the longevity track see all three at different points in the program. The panel review is Dana. The prescription and lab-ordering is Dr. Chaudhari. The behavioral and cognitive work is Najla. The training and recovery is the coaching bench. The pieces talk to each other, not at each other.
Najla Crawford is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Texas. Counseling, behavioral interventions, and structured therapy fall within her scope. When prescription medication or psychiatric evaluation is part of the picture, members are referred to their own psychiatrist or to Dr. Swet Chaudhari, MD at the adjacent practice, Elite Aesthetic MD, for routing. Wellness Elite Fitness is a wellness facility; the behavioral practice runs under Najla’s LPC license.
Common questions
Frequently asked.
What is The Reset Cohort?
The Reset Cohort is an twelve-week closed-group behavioral program for six members at a time, led by Najla. Weekly 75-minute group + biweekly 1:1, integrated with Oura/HRV and Dana’s cellular markers. Three tracks open at a time — Stress Reset, Food Reset (post-GLP-1 after-care), and Weight Reset. Designed for the operator who already knows what to do and isn’t doing it.
Is Najla part of the WEF membership?
Behavioral wellness sessions are included for members on the Diamond Plus tier as part of the longevity track and available as add-on engagements at other tiers. New members typically start with a scoping consult; the cadence is set at first session. The Reset Cohort enrollment runs on a separate window — ask at consult for the next opening.
Is Najla a psychiatrist? Can she prescribe medication?
No. Najla is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), not a psychiatrist. Counseling and structured therapy are within her scope. When prescription is part of the picture, the member is referred to their own psychiatrist or to Dr. Chaudhari at the adjacent practice, Elite Aesthetic MD.
How does Najla coordinate with Dana and Dr. Chaudhari?
Dana reads the biomarker panel; Najla reads the behavioral and cognitive landscape; Dr. Chaudhari signs the labs and prescribes when clinical. The three layers — cellular, behavioral, medical — sit alongside the training and recovery work so the member is not getting three separate answers to the same question.
What does a session with Najla look like?
Sessions are private, structured, and time-bounded. The first is a scoping consult; subsequent sessions follow the cadence Najla sets against the goal. Members on the longevity track typically combine a monthly cadence with shorter check-ins around high-load weeks.
What if I need short-term help around a specific situation?
Brief, structured engagements are in scope. The first consult identifies whether a short cadence is the right fit, or whether longer-arc work serves the goal better.
Where is Najla located?
Najla works out of Wellness Elite Fitness at 104 Whispering Pines Ave, Friendswood, TX 77546 — serving Pearland, League City, Webster, Clear Lake, South Houston, and the wider Houston-south corridor.
Start with a scoping consult.
A first session with Najla, scoped to the goal and integrated with the rest of the practice. No commitment to a long arc until both sides see the work in front of them.