Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
How Ellen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts
- Years in practice
- 40
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Ellen
Ellen Silbert is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with four decades of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addictions, and anger. Ellen works in Massachusetts and offers short-term messaging and live chat as well as phone and video sessions.
She uses straightforward conversation to help clients name what feels hard. Ellen listens without judgment and helps people find small, practical steps. Sessions focus on clear goals and skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes clinical social work across many settings, from labor and delivery to hospice care. That range gives her experience with life cycle issues, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and end-of-life concerns. She earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Social Work from New York University and holds an MA LICSW.
Over 40 years of practice have shaped a calm, steady style. Ellen emphasizes building trust first, then working on coping strategies, communication, and emotion regulation. She blends client-centered conversation with techniques from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness.
Practical supports are part of her offering. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas are used when people want clearer direction or help with behavior change. Ellen also brings emotionally focused perspectives when relationship patterns are central to the problem.
She provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session according to therapist availability.
What Ellen works with
Everything Ellen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Ellen's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Ellen lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy is about creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist follows. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a clearer sense of their own priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for stress, anxiety, anger management, and mood concerns by giving tools people can practice between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotion regulation. It often pairs well with behavioral strategies when someone needs to calm intense emotions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people see facial cues and practice skills together, phone sessions use less bandwidth and work well on the go, live chat supports quick back-and-forth exchanges, and text messaging provides short check-ins or reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care.
Questions people ask about Ellen
What concerns does Ellen commonly help with?
She addresses stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addictions, anger, and related issues such as eating and sleeping difficulties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She takes a calm, practical approach that begins with listening and building trust, then focuses on skills and steps people can try between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Social Work from New York University and brings about 40 years of clinical experience across hospital, hospice, and community settings.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She practices in Massachusetts and is licensed as an LICSW, listed as MA LICSW in her credentials.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a conversation with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.