About Ellen
Ellen Goodloe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 27 years of experience to helping people manage anxiety, stress, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She works with individuals facing depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, parenting strain, and the fallout from trauma or abuse. Ellen also supports people struggling with self-esteem, anger, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
She has substantial experience with military and veteran issues and understands common challenges that follow service.
Background and approach
Ellen aims to meet each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Her approach is practical and tailored to what the individual needs in the moment. Sessions focus on clear goals and straightforward skills people can use between meetings.
Ellen listens for the negative self-talk that holds people back and helps them test and change those patterns. She mixes techniques to fit each situation rather than following a single script. Ellen describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps people identify small, manageable steps toward feeling better and more capable. Throughout, the emphasis is on strengths and workable changes that fit daily life. Getting started usually means a short matching process and then scheduling the most convenient session format.
Ellen’s style is calm, direct, and encouraging for those ready to make changes.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Many clients benefit from evidence-based cognitive approaches that focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing more balanced perspectives. These methods help with anxiety, low mood, and negative self-talk by teaching practical skills to change thought patterns and behavior.A problem-solving and skills-based approach is often used to support coping with life changes, career stress, parenting pressures, and compassion fatigue. This involves breaking problems into steps, practicing new responses, and building routines that reduce overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan together as progress is made. That collaborative process helps find what fits your situation and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and adapt meetings to changing schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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