Rachel Ellis, LPC

Specialties: Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating, LGBTQIA+ Affirming, Trauma-Informed, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders & OCD Tendencies, Life Transitions

Rachel understands the vulnerability that comes with sharing your story out loud. Creating a place where your hurt, joy, shame, and courage can be explored without judgment are some of the reasons she treasures being a therapist. 

If you find yourself struggling in your relationship with food or your body, know that you do not need to go through this alone - even if the experience feels isolating. Oftentimes, there can be so much stigma and misinformation surrounding disordered eating, body image concerns, and eating disorders that you may feel like suffering in silence is your only option. If you’ve ever told yourself your struggles with food or your body aren’t ‘enough’ to deserve support - let’s chat.

Rachel practices under the principles of Intuitive Eating, she is a Health at Every Size (HAES) aligned provider, a weight neutral professional who observes the philosophies of body liberation and body respect. It means we don’t need to treat our body - or live our life - within a system of punishment or reward based on how we feel about our size, shape, or appearance.

Rachel gets that therapy can be both a science and an art, so she uses evidence based treatment and does continued professional development in frameworks like Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She’s also been certified to provide Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). She enjoys introducing these concepts after establishing a rapport grown with warmth, tenderness, and humor.  She believes that relationships, the experience of feeling connected and understood, can be truly transformative.

Whether you are working through body image challenges, struggles with anxiety, or wanting to heal a past or current trauma, Rachel is here to help.