About Ella
Ella Davis is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in North Dakota. She brings four years of experience helping people who face addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. Ella focuses on clear, practical support that fits each person's life and goals.
She listens for what matters most and helps people set small, doable steps. That might mean building coping skills for stress, improving communication, or working through painful memories. Her style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
Ella has particular experience with self-esteem concerns and the fallout from abuse and addiction. She also helps with issues such as abandonment wounds, codependency, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image. These are handled with attention to real-life routines and decisions people face every day.
Sessions often focus on practical strategies for emotion regulation and clearer communication. Ella uses approaches rooted in evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work toward healthier patterns. She expects to collaborate with each person to find what fits best for them.
People who benefit from her approach tend to want straightforward guidance and tools they can use between meetings. She explains options in plain language and supports clients as they try out new ways of coping. Ella aims to help people feel more capable and connected to their goals.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Ella uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach she uses teaches skills for managing emotions and reducing impulses. This helps people facing addiction, intense mood shifts, or overwhelming stress learn breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping strategies. Another common element of her work centers on improving communication and relationship patterns. That kind of work helps when conflicts repeat, boundaries are unclear, or people want clearer ways to say what they need.Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will talk with you about goals, listen to what has helped or not helped before, and suggest strategies to try. Together you will check progress and adjust the plan so it fits your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you see facial cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when you prefer no video. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, shorter updates, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or medical routines while keeping continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota
- Languages
- English