Ellen Ashinoff, L.C.S.W.
Ellen Ashinoff is a clinical social worker who provides psychotherapy to individuals across the lifespan. She treats several mental health disorders, supports women with postpartum depression and anxiety, and offers a neutral ground for individuals, families, and couples. Ellen's focus is to help individuals heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths. They achieve this by providing a neutral safe space, listening to your concerns, and customizing a treatment plan. Her goal is to help individuals to grow from their struggles, heal from pain, and move forward to where they want to be in their lives. Ellen received her MSW from Syracuse University in 1998 and has worked at JCCA in NYC. She worked for AMAC school in New York as the school social worker. Her work experience includes private practice, running social skills groups, and doing early intervention work on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She also provided crisis response work through the Red Cross following 9/11.
While relocating for a few years to Atlanta, Ellen worked in hospice for Kaiser Permanente before she headed back to the northeast to her position at RWJ Barnabas Health System. She also works part-time, providing care to women with postpartum depression and anxiety. During her career, Ellen became a mom of a child with special needs. She's always been involved with her son's education and worked with her town parent group as a chairperson for Two River Parents of Special Needs Children. In her work as a therapist, Ellen supports parents and families with children who have special needs in therapeutic and pragmatic ways. She often shares her referrals and experiences and draws upon her own highs and lows in the IEP process. |