About Ellen
Rev. Ellen Schipul is a Licensed Professional Counselor who blends practical talk therapy with attention to thoughts, body sensations, and personal meaning. She uses plain conversation and simple tools so people can face stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes without feeling overwhelmed.
Her approach aims to make each session feel grounded and usable for day-to-day life. With 18 years of counseling experience and a long background as an ordained interfaith minister, she brings a broad perspective to emotional challenges.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centered methods that center the person's own priorities and on cognitive behavioral techniques that help change unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness and somatic ideas are used to reconnect people with present-moment experience and bodily signals. She helps people work through relationship strain, family-of-origin problems, parenting stresses, and common mood concerns such as depression and bipolar-related challenges.
She also supports those coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and attachment and abandonment wounds. Practical coping skills and small experiments between sessions are common parts of her work. People who want to include their spiritual beliefs in therapy can bring those elements into conversations when desired.
Sessions focus on what each person wants to change and on steps that feel doable for them. Rev. Schipul aims to keep language simple and goals clear so progress can be tracked over time.
Her practice in Pennsylvania combines talking, behavioral tools, and mindful exercises. She offers multiple online formats so people can choose what best fits their schedule and communication needs.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and priorities and creates space for them to guide the work. It helps people who feel stuck or unsure what to change by centering their experience and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses small experiments to test new ways of thinking. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it targets everyday patterns that maintain problems.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Short breathing practices and awareness exercises can be used between sessions to build steady habits.
Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, try approaches that fit the person's needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to keep using.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for in-depth work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, homework, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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