Ellie Trotta , LPCC

Ellie Trotta is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues with self-esteem. She also supports those coping with trauma, addictions, career strain, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue. Ellie works with adults who feel stuck after difficult life events and those processing family of origin and attachment wounds.

Ellie brings seven years of clinical experience and a warm, respectful manner to sessions. She emphasizes empathy and validation and aims to create a space where clients feel heard. Her style is collaborative - she invites people to guide their own goals while offering practical tools and perspective.

Her approach uses a mix of evidence-informed methods tailored to each person. Ellie draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and from acceptance-based strategies to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. She also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current connections.

In sessions she focuses on concrete skills as well as emotional processing. That might mean practicing coping strategies, working on communication, addressing shame or abandonment wounds, or creating step-by-step plans for life changes or recovery from addictive behaviors.

Ellie offers sessions in English and practices from California as an LPCC. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and then schedules according to therapist availability.

How Ellie’s Approaches Work Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while tolerating difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it is practical and goal oriented for mood, anxiety, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships and can be helpful for intimacy concerns, abandonment wounds, and communication problems.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ellie treats this as a collaboration - she listens to a person’s goals and preferences and then recommends techniques to try. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions match changing needs.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and texting can be helpful for brief processing, practicing skills between sessions, or fitting support into a busy day. These options aim to make regular care easier to fit into work, family, and other routines.