About Ellie
Ellie Trotta is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, anger, career changes, and compassion fatigue. Ellie works from California and brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice.
Ellie aims for a warm, respectful therapy relationship. She values empathy and validation and encourages clients to set the pace.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on listening first, then on practical steps clients can try between meetings. Her approach pulls from cognitive behavioral techniques and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current connection patterns.
Therapy often includes skill practice, small behavioral experiments, and reflective conversation. Ellie supports people facing difficult life changes, chronic mood struggles, and problems rooted in past hurt or abandonment. She helps clients build clearer communication, stronger boundaries, and healthier patterns in relationships.
When relevant, she works on skills for managing intense emotions and navigating relapse or recovery challenges. Ellie views clients as experts in their own lives and positions herself as a guide. She helps people set realistic goals and tracks progress in straightforward ways.
Her style is direct but compassionate, with attention to what each person needs in the moment.
Therapy approaches and how they translate online
Ellie draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps in that direction despite difficult thoughts or feelings. ACT emphasizes identifying values and practicing actions that align with those values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and offers concrete exercises to reduce distress and build coping skills.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ellie works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and how they respond in session. She checks in and adjusts techniques as needed so work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let visual cues guide the work; phone sessions can be a shorter, lower-bandwidth check-in; live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing connection and brief skill coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into real life and to practice new skills in the contexts where they matter most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English