About Auben
Auben Elliott is a California psychologist with 36 years of experience helping people who struggle with stress and anxiety. She supports individuals facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel more grounded and in control.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what a person can handle.
Background and approach
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better coping for daily demands. Auben draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the concern at hand. She works with issues related to adoption and foster care, attachment patterns, codependency, and family of origin concerns.
She also supports people facing workplace stress, midlife questions, and aging-related challenges. Her experience includes helping people with post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood changes, guilt and shame, isolation, and commitment questions. She uses straightforward language in sessions and helps clients try small experiments between meetings to test new ways of responding.
Auben offers talk-therapy options that fit different schedules and needs. She aims to create an approachable space where people can face upsetting events, repair relationships with themselves and others, and work toward more stable mood and confidence.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online therapy
Two approaches commonly used in evidence-based work are skills training and trauma-informed care. Skills training teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety and low mood - for example breathing, behavioral experiments, and activity planning that help reduce worry and lift mood. Trauma-informed care focuses on stabilizing reactions and building safety in the present so painful memories can be processed at a manageable pace.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about your needs, goals, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together you will try methods and adjust them if something doesn’t fit, so the plan evolves from your experience and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session that feels most like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, mood tracking, and quick guidance between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain continuity when travel or work schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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