Rev. Ellen Schipul, LPC

Rev. Ellen Schipul is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of helping people through hard times. She combines practical therapy tools with attention to how thoughts, bodies, and spiritual meaning affect daily life. Her approach is calm and curious, aimed at helping people find clearer thinking and steadier feelings.

She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches that emphasize listening, present-moment awareness, and building on a person's strengths. Somatic ideas are used when attention to the body helps with stress or trauma symptoms.

Many people come for help with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, or the ups and downs of bipolar disorder. Others seek support for parenting strain, relationship and family problems, ADHD, compassion fatigue, or life transitions. She also addresses more specific concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and forgiveness.

Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Conversations include skill-building, thought work, simple mindfulness practices, and body-based awareness when it feels useful. Spiritual beliefs can be included when a person wants that as part of care.

She practices from Pennsylvania and offers sessions in English. Remote formats are available for people living elsewhere who prefer online work.

Approaches That Translate to Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building trust. It helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions through supportive conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which works well in remote sessions with homework between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple exercises to reduce stress and improve focus, which can be guided in video or phone sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. That lets them try CBT skills, mindfulness practices, or more listening-based sessions and adjust the plan collaboratively over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can fit a lunch break or low-bandwidth situations, brief live chat or text messaging can help with quick check-ins or planning between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel while still working on skills and coping strategies.