About Ellen
Ellen Silbert is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and ADHD. She has worked in health and community settings for four decades and brings steady practical support to people during life changes. She uses a warm, straightforward style in sessions.
Ellen focuses on building trust and emotional comfort first. That makes it easier to try new ways of coping and to notice what gets in the way of change.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in labor and delivery as well as hospice care, so she is familiar with early parenting issues and end-of-life concerns. Over the years she has supported people with depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver stress. In therapy she combines client-centered listening with focused, skill-based tools.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift patterns of thought and behavior. She also uses emotionally focused ideas to help people improve important relationships and mindfulness practices to reduce stress. Ellen offers messaging, live chat, phone sessions, and video calls.
She aims to be open-minded and nonjudgmental, helping people find clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping. The goal is gradual, practical progress that fits each person's life.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered work means the conversation starts with your concerns and goals. The therapist listens without judgment and helps you steer sessions toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete strategies for changing unhelpful patterns. That approach can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and trouble managing daily tasks.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with you about goals, try strategies, and adjust based on what feels useful. That collaborative process helps match methods to your needs rather than assuming a single path from the start.
Online sessions come in different formats: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and relationship work. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited. Live chat and messaging allow short check-ins, quick coping suggestions, and ongoing reminders between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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