About Ellen
Ellen Odom is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and low self-esteem. She works with people facing life changes and those needing practical ways to cope. Ellen aims to help clients find steps they can take to feel better and move forward.
She draws on 26 years of professional experience in counseling. Ellen typically uses a solution-focused style that is collaborative and goal-driven.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and centered on clear, manageable steps rather than long-term exploration alone. In the room she listens actively and gives direct feedback. She describes her role as honest, supportive, accepting, and sometimes thought provoking.
The client’s priorities guide each session and shape the plan they build together. Ellen often helps people with caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, social anxiety and phobia, women’s issues, and workplace challenges. Those topics are woven into practical goal-setting and small experiments clients can try between sessions.
She encourages people to focus on what is changeable right now. Sessions move at the client’s pace while targeting achievable improvements. Ellen supports clients through setbacks and helps adjust plans when needed.
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Ellen commonly uses solution-focused methods that zero in on specific changes a person wants to make. This approach breaks goals into small steps and tracks what works so progress can happen quickly for issues like stress, anxiety, and motivation.She also emphasizes collaborative goal-setting where the client’s priorities shape the plan. That means the therapist and client decide together which steps to try, when to review progress, and how to adjust goals if something isn’t working for the client.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ellen will discuss options and help figure out the best fit based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. The process is collaborative and flexible, so plans evolve as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people check in or work through brief goals between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting to see what helps most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English