About Ellie
Ellie Trotta is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship pain, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and addiction. She also supports people dealing with trauma, family problems, intimacy concerns, anger, career shifts, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Ellie works with clients who feel stuck after abandonment or childhood wounds and those coping with life changes.
Ellie blends somatic awareness with practical talk therapy. She pays attention to how the body holds emotion and helps people notice physical signals.
Background and approach
Sessions include straightforward skill-building alongside moments of reflection and body-focused exercises when useful. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify values, shift unhelpful thinking, and build small, manageable actions. Attachment-based and client-centered ideas shape how she builds trust and makes space for clients to feel heard.
Ellie treats each person with respect and empathy. She invites clients to take the lead while offering guidance at a comfortable pace. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on helping people find practical steps forward.
Ellie has seven years of clinical experience and holds a Master of Arts in psychology. She practices in California as LPCC 6558 and conducts sessions in English. Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Ellie uses somatic awareness to help clients notice how emotions show up in the body and to practice simple body-based grounding. This can help when anxiety, trauma responses, or chronic stress feel overwhelming. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and then take small actions aligned with those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on patterns of safety and connection in relationships and can help people understand how early bonds shape current interactions.Finding the right fit is part of the work. Ellie treats therapeutic choices as collaborative and will help you test different techniques to see what feels useful. Together you can tailor pacing, exercises, and goals so the approach matches your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats let people access therapy from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and use different ways of communicating on days when talking feels hard. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic, ACT, and attachment-focused tools to online formats so clients can practice skills between sessions and build steady change over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- 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