About Ellen
Ellen Daniels offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or struggles with addiction. She writes plainly and listens closely so concerns can be named and understood. Ellen aims to make the first step feel manageable and respectful for anyone unsure about therapy.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Indiana with 28 years of experience, she focuses on building a nonjudgmental space. People are encouraged to speak freely about painful memories, loss, or current pressures.
Background and approach
The goal is to clarify what is most troubling and set simple, realistic next steps. Her work includes issues related to trauma and abuse, panic and mood disorders, and problems tied to caregiving, chronic illness, or life transition. She also helps people facing isolation, codependency, control struggles, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation.
Concerns like guilt, shame, or questions of life purpose are included in her practice. Ellen blends client-centered conversation with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She may also draw on existential and Jungian ideas to help people explore meaning, values, and personal patterns.
Sessions focus on what feels most useful in daily life rather than abstract theory. Sessions can include skill building, paced processing of difficult events, and support for change. Ellen works to match the pace and focus to each person.
She encourages small steps that lead to clearer thinking and steadier days.
Approaches for change and meaning in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding what matters most to the person. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the pace the client sets to build trust and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, panic, and mood struggles. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Decisions about methods are made collaboratively and can shift as needs change during therapy.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video is useful for a face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when lower bandwidth is needed, short live chat or text messaging can work well for quick check-ins or when a full session is not possible. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to schedule consistent sessions around work, caregiving, or health demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English