About Ellen
Ellen Codere is a licensed clinical social worker with 32 years of experience providing therapy in Michigan. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship difficulties, and major life changes. Ellen focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
Her sessions are calm and direct. She listens closely and asks straightforward questions to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Then she offers tools and small experiments to try between sessions, such as new ways to manage worry, improve sleep, or handle conflict. Ellen uses a mix of approaches to match a person's needs and goals. She commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people choose values-based action even when feelings are difficult. Emotion-focused work helps when relationship patterns or attachment wounds are part of the problem. Over three decades of practice have given Ellen experience with many concerns, including grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, ADHD, body image, and caregiver stress.
She also supports people facing career change, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Ellen aims to make therapy understandable and usable for everyday life. Ellen offers flexible session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is arranged after a short matching process.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space. Online sessions let a therapist reflect what a person says and pace conversations so people feel heard, even when using video or text. Cognitive behavioral therapy is about identifying thoughts and testing new behaviors; it works well online because homework and thought records can be reviewed together during a call or shared in messages.These approaches help with anxiety, stress, relationship patterns, and coping with life changes. Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first and will adjust plans based on progress and preferences.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when someone has limited bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for brief check-ins, skills practice, or when people need to fit a session into a short break. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to use tools in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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