Ellen E. Elliott, LCAS, LPC, CCS, CSAT, PhD is the owner and director of Four Directions Counseling & Recovery Center. She is a psychotherapist who has worked in the mental health field for 30 years and is licensed in North Carolina as an addictions specialist, a professional mental health counselor, a clinical supervisor for counselors, and is nationally certified as a sex addiction therapist.
Ellen has degrees in addictions counseling and social work, as well as a PhD in counseling and human development. For her PhD, she completed research in Nepal, where she studied the specific idioms of distress presented among the indigenous Newar people as a response to historical trauma. As a lifelong lover of learning and culture, she is especially interested in the presentation of trauma in non-Western countries. Ellen has specific training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples (EFT), and trauma therapy. Ellen provides counseling in various areas including addictions, sexual issues, trauma, childhood abuse, intimacy and attachment, and relationships. Her goal is to assist people in addressing past trauma and creating the lives and connections they long for.