About Ellen
Ellen Clark is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri who helps people facing depression, grief, relationship problems, trauma, and low self-esteem. She aims to make sessions straightforward and supportive so a worried parent can understand what to expect in a few sentences. Her style is warm and direct.
She listens first, then helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Practical tools are used alongside space to talk about feelings and life events.
Background and approach
Ellen focuses on real-life concerns like communication problems, social anxiety, and isolation. She also works with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, and forgiveness. She pays attention to stress from caregiving, workplace pressures, and life changes such as divorce or childbirth.
Many people seek help for shame, guilt, or low self-worth, and Ellen aims to help them build more self-love and clearer boundaries. She also supports those navigating women's issues and pregnancy-related challenges, and she addresses social phobia and relationship dynamics in practical ways.
Her clinical approach draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral tools, and techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage emotions and try different ways of responding. With ten years of experience as an LPC, she combines skills and empathy to tailor work to each person's priorities. Sessions are offered in English and arranged to fit individual schedules.
How these approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy is built around listening and responding to what matters most to the person in front of the screen or on the phone. It focuses on empathy, validation, and helping people name their needs so they can make forward steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes. It is practical and goal-oriented, and it can be used for depression, anxiety, social phobia, and workplace stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Short skills practice and grounding techniques are often part of sessions to help people tolerate distress and reduce reactivity.
Matching the right mix of approaches is part of the first few sessions. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, pace, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path. This is a team effort to find what helps most.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for full sessions, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options increase flexibility and help people access care from where they are.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English