Counseling and supportive care to women experiencing stress, grief, anxiety, depression, or trauma related to conception challenges, pregnancy loss, and/or in preconception, pregnancy and postpartum.  As a mental health professional for over 23 years, I also work with women beyond the perinatal time of life.

I concentrate in serving older adults, adults who have a serious medical condition, family caregivers, and adults who are grieving.

I serve all of Illinois via telehealth.

Home visits are available within a geographic area from my office in Kane County, Illinois.

I’m a trained and certified Counselling Psychologist based in the Netherlands.

I specialize in anxiety and anxiety spectrum conditions as well as grief and loss. Additionally, I have experience working with diverse client populations in individual and group settings, who struggle with – anxiety, depression, grief & loss, interpersonal relationship stressors, life transitions, intergenerational traumas, addictions, and unhelpful negative thought cycles.

I use an eclectic and a tailor-made approach using therapies, including but not limited to, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Narrative therapy.

I am also a certified Grief Educator.

A Certified Grief Educator is committed to providing the highest level of grief support through education, experience, and insights into the often unacknowledged rocky terrain of grief. Certified Grief Educators completed a certificate program designed by world-renowned grief expert, David Kessler. They bring his unique methodology, tools, and decades of experience to help people navigate the challenges of grief.

I offer grief support for people who have suffered loss of their loved ones and struggling with life without them. Personally, having lost my mother in 2020, I came face to face with my own grief and what life has looked like coexisting with my grief. I try to bring, into grief sessions, an open understanding of how grief is a lifelong journey and not just an isolated event that we are all so conditioned to believe. I help grievers understand their grief and how best to honor it.

Ellen has been journeying with clients of various ages when they face interpersonal relationship issues, stress, depression, anxiety, grief, traumatic or difficult childhood experiences. She integrates her approach by drawing from experiences and knowledge from her trainings in attachment-focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy (Levels 1 & 2), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Narrative Therapy.

Individual therapeutic services offered in-person or via telehealth.