Rev. Ellen SchipulLPC

Rev. Ellen Schipul is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings 18 years of counseling experience and a pastoral perspective to her work. She listens with an open mind and offers practical tools drawn from several therapeutic approaches. She welcomes conversations about pregnancy and childbirth as part of broader life changes and family concerns.

Her approach links thoughts, bodily reactions, and spirit to help people find balance. Sessions focus on clear goals like reducing anxiety, managing grief, or improving self-esteem. She uses mindfulness exercises, cognitive strategies, and body-centered techniques to help people notice patterns and try small changes.

Clients who are coping with relationship stress, parenting strain, or fertility and pregnancy-related worries can expect a down-to-earth style. The therapist combines reflective listening with concrete steps to address symptoms and everyday challenges. She also addresses burnout and compassion fatigue that often come from caregiving roles.

Her background includes work as an ordained interfaith minister and pastoral counselor, which means spiritual beliefs can be included in therapy when a client wants that. She describes her orientation as client-centered and solution-focused, offering tools from mindfulness, somatic practices, and cognitive behavioral methods.

People seeking help are guided through a collaborative process that matches techniques to their needs. Rev. Schipul aims to create simple, doable practices clients can use between sessions to cope with stress and life transitions.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals; online sessions let the therapist follow the client’s lead and build a working plan together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be coached in session and practiced between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxiety and support coping during pregnancy, grief, or life changes.

Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will review concerns, try different tools, and adjust methods based on how well they fit the client’s goals and preferences. Collaboration means clients help decide whether more cognitive work, mindfulness practice, or somatic awareness feels most useful.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow check-ins from different locations. It can also let the therapist assign short practices between sessions and review progress in a way that fits day-to-day life.