About Ellie
Ellie Trotta is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in California who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. She works with people dealing with addictions, trauma, self-esteem struggles, and major life changes. Ellie brings a calm, respectful presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Ellie uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take manageable action. Attachment-based work guides conversations about how early relationships shape current reactions. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to the person’s comfort.
Ellie emphasizes empathy, validation, and helping people feel heard. She encourages clients to become experts on their own lives and supports small experiments between sessions to test changes. With seven years of experience, Ellie has worked with a range of concerns including trauma from abuse, family of origin issues, intimacy-related worries, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders such as bipolar challenges.
Her background includes a Master of Arts in psychology and ongoing doctoral study in clinical psychology. Ellie conducts therapy in English with clients in California. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that match your needs
Ellie draws on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often using short exercises to test new ways of coping. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to clarify values and build small actions that align with what matters most, which can be helpful for anxiety, avoidance, and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses, and it supports people in learning new ways to relate and regulate.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ellie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches that fit. She checks in along the way and adjusts methods to match progress and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone can be a lower-bandwidth option or useful when not on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and other responsibilities while keeping a steady path toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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