About Alan
Alan Ellias is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan with 20 years of part-time experience as a psychotherapist. He earned his Master of Social Work from Wayne State University in 1995 and has worked in school settings, crisis services, and independent practice. He draws on long experience to help people who are feeling anxious, stressed, or stuck.
His style is warm, nonjudgmental, and interactive. He listens first, then offers options and practical ways to try new responses.
Background and approach
Sessions are geared to each person's life and goals rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. Alan uses a mix of approaches to address concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around intimacy and relationships. He often focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and behaviors and uses that idea to help people try new ways of coping.
He also supports people facing parenting strains, career questions, compassion fatigue, and end-of-life or hospice-related stress. He has experience with LGBT concerns, ADHD, phobias, and issues that arise after infidelity. In practical terms he works with clients to set clear goals and to practice tools between sessions.
He emphasizes respect and sensitivity while helping people widen their choices and regain a sense of control over daily life.
Therapies That Translate Well to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions toward those values while learning to accept difficult feelings. It can help when anxiety or stress keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks closely at how thoughts shape feelings and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns. This approach is often useful for anxiety, depression, phobias, and ADHD-related struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Sessions can shift over time if one way of working is not helping as hoped; the process is collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and needs. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, short-form contact between meetings. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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