About Ellen
Ellen Thornton-Love is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those coping with trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and mood concerns. Her manner is respectful, calm, and grounded to make first conversations easier for worried parents and adults.
She focuses on practical steps that fit a person's day-to-day life. Sessions are shaped to the needs a person brings, not a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Ellen listens first, then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals. Her approach draws on methods that encourage action and clarity. She uses techniques to notice difficult thoughts, build helpful habits, and solve problems in short, manageable steps.
That makes progress feel less overwhelming and more doable between sessions. Ellen also brings experience addressing the fallout from trauma and abuse. She helps people recognize how past events affect current feelings and relationships, and she supports safer ways to manage triggers and intense emotions.
For parents and caregivers she offers focused support around parenting stress, postpartum depression, and balancing care responsibilities. She helps people communicate more clearly and rebuild routines that reduce daily strain. Sessions can include discussion, skill practice, and brief at-home assignments.
Ellen works in English from Oregon and adapts her style to what each person needs to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where avoidance has become the default response.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, panic, depression, and mood shifts because it breaks problems into clear steps to practice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean mixing ACT, CBT, or client-centered conversation over several sessions until the best fit emerges.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen tools for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing support, and quick skill practice between longer sessions.
This mix of methods and formats makes it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while focusing on measurable steps toward feeling better.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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