About Elli
Elli Billingsley is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Oklahoma. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Oklahoma State University. Elli aims to make sessions feel warm and welcoming so people can talk honestly about hard things.
She centers sessions on the relationship with the person in front of her. Elli uses a client-centered style that listens first, then helps people choose tools that fit their life.
Background and approach
She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, and cognitive-behavioral strategies to address stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Elli also brings techniques from dialectical behavior work for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Her practice pays attention to identity concerns, including LGBT matters, and to challenges like grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and burnout.
She helps people sort through communication problems, career strain, self-esteem, and intimacy-related issues. Sessions may include skill practice, values-based planning, and gentle exposure to difficult feelings. Elli emphasizes practical steps - small changes that add up - alongside space to process hard experiences.
She adapts her style to each person's pace and goals. Her background includes three years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns. Elli offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide multiple ways for people to connect and keep therapy part of a busy life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values. It helps with worry, low mood, and life changes by combining action plans with acceptance of difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and to notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away, which supports stress management and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elli helps clients figure out which methods fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She takes a collaborative stance, trying tools and adjusting them so therapy feels helpful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, and people who prefer writing during a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, school, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English