Find A Conscious Parenting Coach

I am a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist with a strong emphasis on authenticity. Therapy can be a place to say out loud all that you have grown accustomed to keeping silent. A genuine and real connection to another person is one of the best tools we have to grow. I have been treating people both privately and in agency settings since 1997. I always aim to develop an empathic connection so that you feel able to disclose your innermost concerns. Being understood in depth can help soothe feelings of hopelessness and/or isolation. You will be listened to with respect and without judgment.

As you start to make sense of your story, you will likely feel that there are new ways of understanding your struggle. Change will begin as a result of our relationship, and gradually small differences will be felt in many contexts of your life.

Ellen wears many hats ? lawyer, caregiver and friend ? but the most important is mother to her two daughters. During their elementary school years she realized that loving them profoundly was simply not enough. She wanted to raise wise, joyful, self-confident young women and so she began to study conscious, mindful parenting.

She was helped in this journey by Dr. Shefali Tsabary, then a psychology graduate student at Columbia University and a young mother herself. As they bonded through their mutual interest in this important subject, Ellen learned from Dr. Shefali how to alter her parenting style. Dr. Shefali, now a practicing psychologist, has become world-renowned in this field. She has been Ellen?s greatest teacher and mentor, and dear friend. Under Dr. Shefali?s tutelage and through her own intensive study in the field for more than a decade, Ellen has been effectively coaching parents from all walks of life for years.

Ellen is an attorney by trade, and her training as a litigator, arbitrator and mediator for almost 30 years has enhanced her communication and negotiation skills. But while practicing law is her vocation, conscious parenting is her passion.