About Ellen
Ellen Minter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strife, grief, and life changes. She works with issues like trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Ellen uses a warm, direct style and aims to guide people toward clearer choices and steadier days.
Ellen draws on many years of helping work outside traditional therapy roles. Her background includes roles as a teacher, sexual assault victim advocate, hospice social worker, and direct support professional for people with developmental disabilities.
How Ellen works
Those experiences shaped how she listens and responds in the room. Her approach blends several practical methods. She focuses on client-centered conversation and real-world skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques are woven in when they fit the situation. Sessions tend to be straightforward, with gentle honesty and occasional warmth or dry humor. Ellen aims to help people spot patterns that keep them stuck and try small experiments that shift daily life.
She pays attention to communication problems, family of origin issues, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and concerns around identity and gender dysphoria. Practical tools, clearer boundaries, and better coping routines are common goals. Based in Indiana, Ellen brings a hands-on, flexible mindset to therapy.
She focuses on helping each person find workable steps to feel steadier, make decisions, and handle the messy parts of life.
Ellen lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Ellen works with
The areas below are the ones Ellen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on your goals and perspective. It involves listening without judgment and helping people find their own direction and solutions. This approach is useful for people who need a steady, supportive space to talk through choices and feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings link together. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and build healthier routines, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication in tense moments.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Ellen will work together with each person to identify which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adapts techniques over time and checks in about what is or isn't helping so the plan can change as needed.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone can be quicker when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat are good for short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while still practicing concrete skills and progress.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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