About Ellen
Rev. Ellen Schipul offers a warm, person-centered approach that centers on the whole person. She blends talk therapy with attention to thoughts, body sensations, and spiritual meaning.
Ellen holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential and brings 18 years of counseling experience to sessions. Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and self-esteem. She also helps people coping with life changes, relationship and family concerns, and parenting strain.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment questions, caregiving stress, and forgiveness work. Sessions tend to be conversational and practical. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and follow what feels most important to each person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thinking patterns and try different behaviors to reduce symptoms. Mindfulness and somatic techniques are used to help people reconnect with their bodies and notice emotional signals. Solution-Focused methods are brought in to set small, achievable goals and track progress.
The therapist integrates faith or spiritual beliefs when a client wants that included. Based in Pennsylvania, Ellen has worked with a wide range of life concerns over nearly two decades. Her style is steady and accepting, aiming to help people build skills they can use between sessions.
She welcomes international clients and conducts work in English.
Therapeutic methods adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. This approach emphasizes empathy and reflection to help people feel understood and to clarify their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Mindfulness Therapy uses simple practices to help people notice thoughts, emotions, and body sensations with less reactivity.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions often combine elements from different approaches so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face connection and skill practice, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives, while allowing the therapist to adapt tools to each format.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English