Taking a client-centered and collaborative approach, Ellen creates a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can explore and identify complex emotions and personal challenges, using art as the mediator to enhance self-expression and communication.
Ellen emphasizes art as a therapeutic tool in sessions, providing a supportive framework for the integration of creativity beyond the session in order to develop coping strategies and promote well-being. Ellen has used this approach with her clients to foster resiliency, contain anxiety, and to encourage mindfulness, as well to redirect self-harm, panic, and eating disorder behaviors. Using art to explore complex challenges provides a space to validate emotions, to increase self-understanding, and to empower clients to reconstruct their personal narrative and healing process.
