About Ellen
Ellen Mauldin is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship problems, and parenting challenges. Ellen works with individuals who are coping with grief, mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, and life adjustments that feel overwhelming.
She approaches work in a direct, practical way. Sessions often include goal-setting, learning skills to manage strong emotions, and talking through patterns that get in the way of relationships.
Background and approach
Ellen uses a mix of therapeutic methods to match what each person needs, rather than one fixed approach. Her background includes long experience addressing complex trauma, high-conflict relationships, and parenting difficulties. That experience shapes how she helps people rebuild routines, set boundaries, and make clearer decisions during stressful times.
She also supports people dealing with body image, eating concerns, chronic illness, and the complexities of adoption and attachment issues. Ellen draws from techniques that teach new ways to respond to distress, improve communication, and reduce symptoms that interfere with daily life. She helps clients practice skills between sessions and adapt strategies to real-life situations.
The goal is to help people find clearer direction and more stable coping day to day. People who value straightforward guidance and practical tools tend to fit well with her style. Before starting, confirm current session options and scheduling details so sessions can be arranged to fit your needs.
How Ellen’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences dictate behavior. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that move a person toward the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to shift those patterns for issues like anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns that started early and helps people build more supported ways of connecting and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ellen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best, based on goals, needs, and preferences. The plan can be adjusted over time as progress and priorities change.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the formats she currently offers before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand. Many people find that online sessions let them practice new skills in the setting where challenges actually occur. Ask about the available options when you schedule so you can choose what fits your routine and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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