Ellie Sorkin, Counseling Intern
She/Her/Hers
Adler University
Child & Adult Counseling
Your past does not have to be your future. You have the power to overcome mental barriers and trauma to move toward inner peace and growth. With compassion, openness, and support, Ellie can help you find that healing strength within yourself. Ellie is a supportive and effective trauma counseling intern for both children and adults. Especially interested in trauma work, she supports people who have experienced past trauma and aims to challenge how those experiences have been holding them back. Ellie is interested in working with children and adults wanting to overcome past traumatic experiences, self-esteem issues, and relationship issues and build healthier coping skills for life’s challenges.
Therapeutic Approach
Ellie approaches all clients from a trauma-informed lens. She views each person holistically, understanding that experiences, environment, and identity impact mental health. Clients are the experts of their lives and experiences. For this reason, Ellie believes that collaboration with clients throughout the counseling process is vital. She wants people to feel safe and heard in the therapeutic process, so they can continue to be vulnerable about their experiences. Therapeutic approaches such as Person-centered therapy, narrative therapy, and internal family systems therapy guide her counseling practice. Additionally, she uses attachment-based strategies and assessments to help people better understand their attachment style and the roots of their thinking and behavior patterns.
Education & Training
Ellie completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Kansas and is currently pursuing her master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Adler University. As a counseling intern, she is clinically supervised by Teresa Paterson Bartch, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S.
- Johnson County
