About Ellen
Ellen Daniels is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and depression. She aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming by offering steady, nonjudgmental support. Her approach is practical and straightforward so people can start feeling more capable in daily life.
In sessions she creates space for honest conversation about thoughts and feelings. She listens carefully and helps clients notice how emotions show up in the body and behavior.
Background and approach
From there she works collaboratively to identify small, doable steps toward relief and clearer decision making. Ellen blends somatic awareness with client-centered talking therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means attention to bodily experience alongside exploring thoughts and patterns.
She may also draw on existential ideas and Jungian perspectives to help people find meaning and personal direction. Over nearly three decades she has supported people through addiction recovery, trauma and abuse, and complicated grief. She also helps with chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, codependency, and struggles with guilt, shame, and isolation.
Her practice focuses on real-world tools and steady support rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and held from Indiana. Ellen is licensed as an LCSW in Indiana, license number 34004936A.
She works with clients to identify goals and practical steps they can use between sessions.
How Ellen’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to the body as part of emotional healing. Online sessions can still include guided awareness of breath, posture, and bodily sensations to help reduce anxiety and grounding exercises for panic or stress.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. In remote sessions this shows up as reflective conversation and collaborative goal setting so the client feels heard and involved in planning changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Over video or messaging, cognitive tools and simple homework tasks can be assigned and reviewed together to track progress.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which approaches fit best based on goals, comfort, and how symptoms show up. This collaborative process makes adjustments simple as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility helps people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health limits. It also makes it easier to try tools between sessions and to check in when life gets busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English