Ellen Mauldin
Compassionate therapist with forensic and clinical experience
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ellen
Ellen Mauldin is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 26 years of clinical experience. She brings a longstanding focus on trauma, anxiety, and relationship concerns. Ellen also works in forensic roles related to family and civil court matters.
Her approach is direct and practical. She listens for what matters most and helps clients build steps they can try between sessions. She often uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based strategies to address anxiety, mood concerns, and stress.
Background and approach
Ellen also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. That perspective can help people understand patterns around intimacy, abandonment, and communication. She draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques when people need tools for emotional regulation and coping.
People contact her about a wide range of issues including parenting stress, grief, addiction, body image, eating concerns, chronic illness, and major life changes. She also has experience with adoption and foster care topics and with challenges related to autism and neurodiversity.
Her background includes roles such as expert consultant and witness, custody-related work, and therapeutic coaching, where she combines clinical work with practical guidance. Ellen aims to help people clarify goals, learn manageable skills, and find ways forward that fit their lives.
How Ellen’s Approaches Fit Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating major life decisions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current behavior and helps people change repeating patterns around closeness and communication. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by teaching practical skills for managing mood and anxiety. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ellen will talk with a client about goals, history, and what feels most helpful. Together they can try an approach and adjust as needed so therapy fits changing needs and preferences. If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking so you understand what formats are offered. Many people find remote sessions help fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins, or remove travel time. Online work also makes it easier to maintain continuity when life or location changes. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively in telehealth settings, and Ellen can help you decide which tools and session rhythm will work best for day-to-day life.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Ellen
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point