Ellen Silbert
Compassionate LICSW blending practical tools and empathy
LICSW Massachusetts
- Experience
- 40 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Family, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Ellen
Ellen Silbert is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with four decades of clinical experience in Massachusetts.
Background and approach
She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related life adjustments.
Her practice also addresses a wide range of additional areas such as adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and domestic violence.
Throughout a long career that began after earning a master's degree in clinical social work, Ellen has practiced across many settings and age ranges, providing support from labor and delivery through end-of-life care. She emphasizes an open-minded, nonjudgmental stance that aims to foster trust and emotional safety as a foundation for change.
Her approach integrates client-centered listening with evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, emotionally-focused work, and motivational interviewing to address patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior. Ellen offers messaging, live chat, phone, and video sessions and typically responds to messages daily.
She encourages prospective clients to reach out and notes that scheduling may be adjusted by messaging to explore mutually available times.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning; it is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating challenges, and coping with life changes. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration so clients feel heard and can develop self-awareness and resilience through a supportive therapeutic relationship. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people explore and reorganize emotional responses and attachment patterns, which can be useful for relationship and intimacy-related concerns.Ellen approaches choosing techniques as a collaborative process, working with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. She blends practical skill-building with reflective conversation and adapts interventions over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy with Ellen is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allows for scheduling flexibility and ongoing support between sessions. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access care from different locations within Massachusetts, while still allowing for regular, consistent work on goals.
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Experience
40+ years
Licensed
Massachusetts
Languages
English