LMFT
Ellen Mauldin, LMFT
- Experience26 years
- LocationCalifornia
- Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Family, and Trauma and abuse
- Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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About Ellen
Ellen Mauldin is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 26 years of experience. She works with people dealing with trauma, anxiety, eating disorder recovery, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
Ellen also consults in legal settings related to family and dependency matters. Her approach emphasizes listening first.
She pays attention to each person's history and the parts of themselves that feel stuck or reactive. Ellen uses Internal Family Systems to help people name and relate to those inner parts, and she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when practical skills are needed.
Ellen often helps people who are coping with big changes. That includes grief, separation, chronic health challenges, and the fallout from high-conflict relationships.
She also supports people facing issues around identity, parenting stress, adoption and foster care questions, and autism-related challenges. In sessions she blends talk therapy with practical tools.
She may work on clearer communication, managing strong emotions like anger, grief, or shame, and building routines that support recovery from addiction or disordered eating. She aims to make next steps manageable and realistic.
Outside clinical work Ellen participates in forensic roles such as custody-related consultation and therapeutic parent coaching. She brings that courtroom-informed perspective back to clinical conversations when it helps clients plan or prepare for legal processes.
How Ellen’s approaches translate to online care
Internal Family Systems helps people identify the different parts inside them - for example a protective part or a wounded part - and learn to relate to those parts with curiosity and care. It can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and strong self-criticism. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking small values-based actions; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and behaviors, and it can be helpful for people working on trust, closeness, and communication patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ellen will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and pace. Together they decide whether to lean more on parts work, behavior-focused strategies, or relational repair during sessions.
Confirm current session options before booking to know how Ellen offers online care. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow work on emotion regulation and communication skills from wherever a person is joining. Some approaches, like skills practice or parts work, adapt well to remote sessions, and the therapist will tailor exercises so they work in the format you choose.
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Experience
26+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English