About Ellen
Rev. Ellen Schipul is a licensed professional counselor who centers work on body-focused awareness alongside talk therapy. She blends practical strategies with somatic sensibilities to help people manage overwhelming feelings and daily stress.
Her approach aims to make emotional shifts feel grounded in the body as well as the mind. She brings 18 years of experience in counseling and over 15 years as an ordained interfaith minister. That combination informs a holistic view of a person - thoughts, sensations, and meaning all matter.
Background and approach
Clients may bring anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, or parenting and relationship stresses. Sessions combine straightforward conversation with tools from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, solution-focused work, and somatic attention to bodily experience. The therapist listens first, then offers simple practices and experiments to try between sessions.
Practical steps often include breathing, grounding, and small behavior changes aimed at improving daily coping. She also helps people face long-standing patterns such as attachment or abandonment issues, codependency, family of origin concerns, and challenges around divorce, fertility, or caregiving stress. The work may include processing painful memories and building steadier emotional tools.
Ellen holds the LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor - with license number PA LPC PC006128 in Pennsylvania. Sessions are offered in English and available to international clients by online formats. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling follow the Start Therapy button.
How somatic and practical approaches work online
Somatic Therapy pays attention to bodily sensations as a route to feeling calmer and more grounded. It uses simple awareness and grounding practices to help with stress, trauma responses, and intense emotions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on open listening and building a trusting relationship, letting the person guide what matters most in their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at clearly identifying thoughts and behaviors to create small, practical changes for anxiety, depression, and daily coping.Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences, then try practices together and adjust based on what helps. This collaborative approach means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - make it easier to try these methods from home. Video and phone allow real-time conversation and guided exercises, while chat and messaging can support short check-ins, skills practice, and ongoing encouragement. These options provide flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel and let therapy fit more easily into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English