Ella Davis
Compassionate, practical help for life's hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- North Dakota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ella
Ella Davis is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in North Dakota. She brings four years of experience helping people facing addiction, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at parents and adults who want practical ways to manage stress and improve daily life.
Ella focuses on clear goals and small steps. She listens for what feels most urgent and helps people set manageable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to emphasize problem-solving, coping skills, and improving communication patterns. Her background includes training as an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. That clinical training supports work with complex issues such as co-morbidity, codependency, and chronic illness or pain.
She also draws on evidence-based techniques to address trauma and addiction recovery. People may come with concerns about abandonment, avoidant or dependent personality patterns, blended family stress, caregiver burden, or aging and geriatric issues. Ella aims to help clients untangle these overlapping problems into focused steps they can try between sessions.
She keeps language plain and explanations concrete so parents can read and act on suggestions quickly. Sessions commonly cover communication problems, commitment worries, body image, and coping after a natural or human-caused disaster. The overall approach is collaborative and practical, with attention to emotional safety and real-world progress.
Therapeutic tools and online care that fit your life
Evidence-based techniques form the heart of Ella's practice. She often uses approaches that focus on emotion regulation and relapse prevention to help people manage cravings, reduce risky behaviors, and build steadier routines. These methods teach concrete skills to cope with urges and stress.She also draws on trauma-informed strategies that help people process painful memories at a pace they can tolerate. These strategies include grounding and gradual exposure-style work to reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning after traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Ella will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, history, and comfort level. She adjusts plans over time so the techniques feel useful in real life rather than only in the therapy room.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and people juggling work or caregiving. Sessions are available by video call or phone for face-to-face conversation, and by live chat or text messaging for brief check-ins or when written communication feels easier. This range of formats makes it simpler to fit therapy into a hectic schedule while keeping continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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