About Ella
Dr. Ella Ray is a Pennsylvania psychologist with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and 36 years of experience. She offers calm, straightforward therapy that helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and related concerns.
She focuses on strengths as much as problems and encourages clear, practical steps toward goals. She blends cognitive behavioral work with mindfulness to help clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns and reduce the fog of anxiety. Sessions include talking through thoughts and learning simple practices to steady attention and mood.
Background and approach
Motivational approaches help people break through procrastination and build small, workable changes. Dr. Ray has long experience addressing trauma and abuse, including the effects of racial trauma, and she pays careful attention to multicultural factors.
She values hearing each person’s story and avoids assumptions based on appearance or background. Her background includes work with career issues, self-esteem concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and phobias. Her manner is warm, respectful, and occasionally humorous.
She invites questions about any suggestions offered and wants clients to understand the reasoning behind interventions. People who prefer clear explanations and practical tools often find this approach useful. She follows the ethical guidelines of the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology.
Before a first appointment she collects basic identification and health information as required. To begin, select Start Therapy and complete the short matching questionnaire.
Using CBT and Mindfulness online to ease anxiety
Dr. Ray often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and is useful for anxiety, depression, and avoidance patterns. She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce mental fog and make it easier to notice what is actually happening.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different strategies, and adjust techniques based on what helps you feel more capable. Clients are invited to ask questions and to try practical exercises between sessions so the plan reflects their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more convenient. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of techniques. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter audio check-in fits a busy day. Live chat or text messaging works well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it possible to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and travel schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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