LOOKING TO ENHANCE YOUR LIFE? LET'S TALK!
Is something getting in the way or your dreams and goals?
Do you want to move forward, but are stuck and don’t know how?
Are you worried, sad or frustrated with your current circumstances?
Have you been thinking about talking to a counselor for a long time?
If this sounds like you, you are definitely in the right place.
Counseling with me can help you feel better.
Counseling With Ellen Schrier
I’m Ellen Schrier, MS, LPC, a Licensed Professional Counselor in North Wales, Pennsylvania. My passion is helping people get unstuck from troubling life circumstances that are creating a less than ideal life. Counseling with me is really more about you and what goals you want to achieve for yourself.
With my own committed, long term 48 year marriage, including parenting and raising children, and working as a psychotherapist and marriage counselor with hundreds of individuals and couples, I appreciate the many difficult emotions that can and do occur during times of stress and strife.
Helping clients understand and cope with uncomfortable emotions is one of my specialties. When difficult emotions arise, you can feel unsafe and insecure when trying to work through problematic situations, but in my experience avoiding, ignoring or numbing out your feelings tends to make things worse, not better.
I can help you learn more effective ways to cope with your uncomfortable feelings and share them with your partner. It is not only my specialized professional skills, but also my extensive personal experience that will help you to enhance or repair those relationships most precious to you. When you are grounded in supportive, loving bonds, all of life seems easier, more bountiful and more beautiful!
Whatever Your Concerns Are, I'd Love To Talk
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Clinical Experience
Specialized training in couples therapy is part of my 20 years of experience helping people work through their problems. It further deepens my ability to provide the communication skills and expressive language couples need to help them break through their existent or potential problem areas.
I have completed Level 3 Training in Gottman Couples Therapy, and use Gottman Method Couples Therapy in my work. I also have completed extensive training in Emotionally Focused Therapy which helps couples form a closer connection by uncovering and identifying the deeper underlying emotions that keep them apart. We work together as a team to identify problem areas, open up couple communication and promote understanding.
I earned a Master of Science degree in Community and Mental Health Counseling at Gwynedd-Mercy University and obtained my LPC. I am also a Nationally Certified Counselor. My experience includes working in a variety of community and school counseling settings. I offered career counseling to college students, worked as a certified school counselor for non-public schools, delivered therapy services at Northwestern Human Services and Holy Redeemer Hospital Counseling Center. I have specialized training in grief and facilitated grief support groups for children, parents and teen at Safe Harbour.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ME
I have been a therapist in Pennsylvania providing therapy since 2003. Prior to becoming a counselor, I have always had a sincere passion to help people. My most important role was raising three beautiful children and being a stay-at-home mom. When I graduated from that full time gig, my passion to help people led me to work in the healthcare community. I am a Pennsylvanian, born and raised and continue to love living in this beautiful area.
When I am not counseling, you can find me on a beach, hanging out with my grandkids, traveling to other world destinations or exploring nature with my husband and dog, Emmie.
MY GOALS
My goals for working with you will complement whatever you would like to accomplish during your time in therapy. We work collaboratively to discover what would be your ideal outcome for counseling. I focus on solutions and the tender underlying emotions that could be holding a problem in place. I look for ways to build upon your strengths rather than focus on weaknesses. Emphasis is placed on developing more effective ways of relating to yourself and others others, especially in regard to learning better communication and conflict resolution skills. Therapy with me will help you uncover your own internal solutions to life’s challenges.
