Ellen Daniels

Ellen Daniels is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Indiana with 28 years of clinical experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Ellen also focuses on related struggles such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and issues around life purpose.

She uses straightforward conversation to help people sort through what feels overwhelming. Sessions tend to be practical and paced to the person’s needs. Ellen listens for what is most pressing, then helps map small steps that can be tried between meetings.

Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and shift thought patterns. Mindfulness practices and existential ideas appear when clients want to consider meaning or values in their lives.

People who come to Ellen often want a clearer sense of direction after a major change, relief from persistent worry, or help managing addiction and its effects on daily life. She also addresses practical relationship and communication struggles, guilt, shame, and isolation.

Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Ellen helps set simple, realistic aims and checks progress as work proceeds. She emphasizes collaboration about next steps rather than handing down a fixed plan.

To begin, visitors are asked to use the site’s matching process and schedule an initial session. Her practice conducts work in English and serves people within Indiana.

How Ellen’s approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. Online sessions using this approach begin with open listening and the therapist reflecting what she hears. This helps clarify what matters most and points to practical next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in virtual sessions looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep stress or low mood in place. Ellen would help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try small experiments or exercises between sessions to test new ways of thinking and acting.

Mindfulness-based methods teach simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. Online work can include guided exercises and short practices to use during the week when anxiety or cravings arise.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Ellen will collaborate with the person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That decision adjusts as progress is tracked and needs shift.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings around work or caregiving, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. These practical benefits can help keep momentum while trying new coping strategies.