Approach & Experience

Ellen is a counselor who strives to provide uniquely tailored, compassionate, and quality therapeutic experiences to support your evolving circumstances and needs. With extensive training in somatic and dance / movement therapies, she is a fierce advocate for your innate wisdom to spring forth, refine, and grow into an impeccable resource for your own healing and thriving.

    • ADHD

    • Adoption

    • Adrenaline-Seeking / Risk-Taking

    • Anger Management

    • Anxiety

    • Autism Spectrum

    • Boundaries

    • Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment

    • Codependency

    • Coping Skills

    • Developmental Delays

    • Divorce / Blended Families / Step-Parenting

    • Emotional Support Animals

    • Emotional Regulation

    • Empathic and Intuitive

    • Enneagram Types

    • Family Conflict

    • Fertility

    • Gender Identity

    • Highly Sensitive People

    • Infidelity

    • Life Transitions

    • Miscarriage

    • Neurodivergence

    • Parentification / Children of Mentally Ill Parents

    • Parenting

    • Peer Relationships

    • Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum - including NICU

    • Relationship Issues

    • School Issues

    • Self Esteem

    • Self-Identity and Purpose

    • Sexual Expression and Consent

    • Sexual Orientation

    • Sex and Intimacy

    • Sexual Abuse

    • Spirituality / Metaphysical

    • Stress

    • Terminal Illness

    • Transgender Advocacy, Letter Writing, & Transition

    • Trauma and PTSD

    • Women & Assigned Female at Birth - Bodies, Hormones, Cycles

    • Somatic-based

    • Dance / Movement Therapy

    • Dying, Death, and Grief

    • Compassion Focused

    • Couples Counseling

    • Child Therapy

    • Elders (65+)

    • Adults (18 to 65)

    • Teens (13 to 17)

    • Preteens (10 to 12)

    • Children (5 to 9)

    • Toddlers / Preschoolers (2 to 4)

    • Babies (0 to 24 months)

  • All people on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum can be assured an inclusive, welcoming, and compassionate space with Ellen & Spring Wind Resourcing.

    • Attachment-based

    • Compassion Focused

    • Dance / Movement Therapy

    • Existential

    • Experiential Therapy

    • Expressive Arts

    • Gestalt

    • Mindfulness-based

    • Person Centered

    • Somatic

    • Strength-based

Counseling Philosophy

  • Ellen brings a radically joyful, compassionate, humorous, and vulnerably honest approach to her counseling. She believes that humans have innate goodness and worth, in addition to the need to be fully valued and seen. Through her soul's work, Ellen is dedicated to providing the encouragement and tools for creating empowered, life-affirming repair and healing. She also supports her clients to discover and contribute their creativity and unique purpose, for themselves and their larger communities.

    She specializes in a non-clinical approach, with conviction that the most natural way to begin healing is to find the right fit with a therapist in an atmosphere that is friendly and authentic. Ellen wants each of her clients to feel unconditionally supported to share their vulnerabilities, while also confident enough in the therapeutic relationship to value different perspectives that may challenge their detrimental core beliefs.

  • A session will typically begin with deeply listening to what has transpired since a last visit, summarizing previous meetings if desired, and will then organically center around themes that clients most need support with. Ellen has an exceptional capacity for remembering her clients’ life circumstances and asking follow-up questions. It is okay for a client to show up to a session in any state of being — exhaustion, not knowing, excitement, tears, or of little words. Ellen will prompt her clients with questions of curiosity, or listen intently if they have a lot to share. While she typically has a free-flowing, emergent approach to sessions, Ellen is also happy to structure the time and offer specific interventions and psycho-education based on her intuitive sense of what a client may need.

    Ellen values building long term and ever-evolving relationships with her clients. Continued in-depth conversations and the exchange of ideas can encourage resilience and a deeper sense of self-knowledge to navigate life transitions that will naturally arise.

  • Inspired by the healing power of nature and movement, Ellen likes to reference these elements in a way that is most beneficial to her clients. Just as nature shifts through seasons, she encourages natural rhythms with her clients, reminding them that most transitions take a minimum of 3 months to integrate, if not much longer.

    Additionally, while Ellen does not identify with a specific religion, spirituality is highly important to her. She believes in the interconnectedness of all beings and nature, the capacity to impact one another on deeply energetic levels, the awe-inspiring universe that is larger than our human selves, as well as honoring ancestry and the spirit realm. Ellen listens to clients’ religious beliefs or atheistic views with respect — and encourages all of her clients to love with acceptance and healthy discernment — without passing judgement.

    Ellen is soulful, and holds her clients’ stories, insights, and even weaknesses with reverence. She engages in consistent dance classes and therapy for herself, as well as an Authentic Movement practice that supports her growth as a human being and a professional.

What is somatic therapy?

Soma is of Greek origin, translating to ‘the body experienced from within.’ Somatic therapy is a form that recognizes the healing inherent in learning about and building awareness around the vast information that is alive within in our bodies.

Teaching a client to notice their sensate experience and the feedback loop it offers can be restorative instead of re-traumatizing. For example, anxiety can often manifest in a variety of ways - an upset or tight stomach, a heavy chest, challenges with taking a full breath, a lump in the throat. With practice, these sensations can be regarded not as inherently negative, but as intelligent cues to slow down and pay attention.

Techniques in somatic therapy support a client to recognize and understand their body’s cues, and to then make conscious choices based upon this deeper intelligence and resourcing. This can include beginning with meditation, visualization, gesture, and then tracking sensation into creative conversation, art-making, singing, movement, play, or whatever may feel resourceful to a client.

What is Dance / Movement Therapy?

Dance / Movement Therapy is defined by the American Dance Therapy Association as: “the psychotherapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual.”

Through time, dance and movement have always been a vital form of human expression; communities gather around celebratory movement, find solace and spirituality within dance, and deepen into self-awareness through embodied motion.

This transformative modality allows clients to explore the dynamic relationship between their mind and body. Both the movements of client and therapist become a pathway for conscious self-exploration and evolution. Techniques build awareness around the interconnectedness between movement and breath, posture, spatial relationships, gestures, sensations, and more. Non-verbal witnessing and attunement within movement can also provide a bridge toward healing pre-verbal, young childhood ruptures.

Dance / movement therapy can restore confidence, unwind developmental trauma, build healthy neural networks in the brain, lower stress and anxiety, and offer profound insight.