About Ellen
Ellen Minter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, depression, and trauma. She offers a direct and approachable style that aims to cut through what's getting in the way. Her tone is warm and often lightly humorous while staying straightforward.
Ellen draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered techniques to listen and clarify goals.
Background and approach
She applies cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors. Dialectical behavior and mindfulness practices are added when people need skills for emotion regulation and staying present. Her background includes hands-on roles that shaped her perspective.
Those experiences helped her learn practical ways to support people through hard changes. She emphasizes clear, honest feedback instead of minimizing concerns. Sessions tend to focus on concrete steps and skills.
Ellen works with people to set small, manageable goals and practices between meetings. She also addresses relationship and family-of-origin patterns when relevant. People can expect an open-minded clinician who balances empathy with direct guidance.
Ellen aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life. She helps people navigate transitions and build tools for coping long-term.
How Ellen’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. It helps people clarify goals and feel understood before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It provides practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. Those skills are useful when intense feelings or relationship tensions get in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ellen will talk with each person about their goals, try different techniques, and adjust based on what helps. She aims to match methods to individual needs rather than sticking to a single plan.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people connect face-to-face for skill teaching and role play. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are handy for short updates, coping reminders, or continuing work between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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