About Ellen
Ellen Mauldin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 26 years of clinical experience in California. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, trauma recovery, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. Ellen helps people untangle complex problems and find steady ways forward.
Her work focuses on trauma, anxiety disorders, and eating disorder recovery. She also supports people navigating grief, addiction, mood challenges, and major life changes. Ellen brings steady, practical care to problems that can feel overwhelming.
How Ellen works
In sessions she uses approaches grounded in acceptance and behavior-focused skills. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new responses. Attachment-based ideas inform work on relationships and connection.
Ellen aims for clear goals and simple tools that fit daily life. She emphasizes communication skills, emotion regulation, and planning for manageable changes. Clients leave with steps they can use between appointments.
She holds a California LMFT license, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Sessions are conducted in English, and international clients may be seen. To begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule according to therapist availability.
Ellen lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that align with personal values. It can help people living with anxiety, depression, or chronic stress find steadier ways of living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is often used for anxiety, mood disorders, and some eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships shape emotion and behavior and can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and attachment wounds. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ellen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean blending techniques from different approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, remove commute time, or allow a shorter check-in when that suits the day. It also lets people continue care when relocation or travel would otherwise interrupt progress. Many licensed professionals adapt exercises, emotion-regulation skills, and communication practice for remote sessions so clients can use tools in real life between appointments.Start online instead of waiting
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