Hi, I’m MARY ELLEN.
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with training in Perinatal Mental Health. I have experience in school, community mental health, and group private practice settings. My passion is empowering women in any stage of life. Over the course of my career, I have partnered with girls, preteens, adolescents, and women facing difficult life transitions, mood disorders, mental illness, relationship challenges, and parenting roadblocks.
Early in my career, I recognized the need for specialized care in maternal mental health. I began to deepen my own connection to self through the mind-body connection of yoga and have become deeply fascinated in what I believe is the most awe-inspiring and challenging thing a body can do — create and bring forth new life!
I have a passion for helping women navigate challenging life transitions that arise with becoming a mother. Utilizing evidence based perinatal mental health modalities including interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic based practices, attachment theory, as well as mindfulness and emotional regulation techniques, we can work together to make this special time a healthy and nurturing stage in a woman's life. I wholeheartedly believe maternal mental health and wellness should be a priority for all women and their families.
My Approach
I work from a mix of relational, systemic, and person-in-environment lens. Informed by my education primarily in emotionally focused therapy, somatic based modalities, perinatal mood disorders, DBT, mindfulness, and the Gottman method — I help both my individual clients and couples who feel anxious, depressed, and stuck examine what isn’t working in order to create lasting change.
My hope is to work collaboratively with you to identify goals and create an effective plan together that cultivates a more graceful, joyful, and confident self and relationship with others.
EXPERIENCE
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, CSW.09929627
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Advanced Perinatal Psychotherapy, Postpartum Support International
TRAINING & EDUCATION
Master’s Degree in Social Work, University of Denver, Concentration in Health and Wellness
Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, DePauw University
International Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance
