Rev. Ellen Schipul

Rev. Ellen Schipul is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 18 years of counseling experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, and questions about life changes and purpose.

She draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices. Sessions focus on making sense of thoughts, noticing bodily responses, and identifying small steps that change daily habits. She also uses somatic techniques to help people name and work with physical responses to stress.

Her background includes pastoral counseling and nearly two decades as an ordained interfaith minister. That experience means she is comfortable including a client’s spiritual beliefs in sessions when it feels relevant. She describes a broad clinical toolkit and aims to help clients put practical strategies into everyday life.

Ellen helps people check what is and isn't working now, and then tries concrete ways to shift routines, thinking patterns, and body reactions. She combines mindful attention, cognitive reframing, and brief solution-focused planning so people can test small changes between sessions.

The practice accepts people from outside the United States. Sessions are conducted in English. Before booking, readers should confirm current session formats and scheduling details via the provider's online sign-up process.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy involves open listening and reflecting what a person says so the client can identify values and choices. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through current worries and priorities in a straightforward way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying concrete behavioral experiments. In a remote session, that might mean setting small homework tasks and reviewing results together. Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to present-moment experience and simple practices for noticing thoughts and bodily reactions; these practices can be introduced and practiced during a video or phone meeting.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and what feels practical in day-to-day life. That collaborative process helps shape session focus and short-term steps to try between meetings.

Session formats are not specified here, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy week and to have follow-ups without travel. Phone calls can be a shorter check-in when time is limited, while video meetings allow visual connection for practicing mindfulness and somatic noticing. The emphasis is on practical ways to bring new habits into everyday routines rather than on a single mode of delivery.