About Ellie
Ellie Trotta is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults on depression, relationship strain, grief, self-esteem, addiction concerns, and life transitions. Ellie listens first and aims to make sessions feel practical and approachable for people who are overwhelmed.
Ellie uses clear, skills-based methods alongside deeper work on patterns that began in childhood. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based practices to help people notice thoughts and choose actions that fit their values.
Background and approach
Emotion-focused and attachment-informed ideas guide conversations about closeness, trust, and intimacy. Her style is warm and direct. She offers validation and empathy while teaching tools people can use between sessions.
Sessions often include small behavioral experiments, thought work, and emotion regulation exercises tailored to daily life challenges. Ellie earned a Master of Arts in psychology and has seven years of clinical experience. She is working toward a Doctor of Psychology degree.
Her California LPCC credential is part of her professional background and informs how she approaches treatment planning. Ellie provides care in English and focuses on making therapy fit each person’s needs and schedule. She supports people coping with trauma, family-of-origin issues, abandonment, body image concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her goal is to help people build practical skills and clearer relationships with their feelings and values.
How Ellie’s Approaches Shape Online Sessions
Ellie often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps that match their values. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety and depression. ACT teaches acceptance of difficult feelings while committing to meaningful actions, which can help with long-term avoidance and low motivation.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at patterns in close relationships. That work helps when people struggle with trust, abandonment fears, or repeating family-of-origin patterns. Ellie treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process and will help you decide which methods match your goals, preferences, and daily life needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work face-to-face when you want more direct interaction. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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