About Us
Welcome to The Chaise Lounge!
We are so happy you are here. The decision to seek therapy is often the first major step towards discovering a more fulfilled, healed, empowered, happier you! Whether you are interested in exploring more about how your past might continue to impact your current mood or relationships, relieving your depression, anxiety, stress levels, or you want to heal your inner child, the aim of the Chaise Lounge is to help you gain self-compassion and realize your worth! You are valuable, special, loveable, and your feelings are important. The Chaise Lounge is often described as a very relaxing environment (there is also a small comfy loveseat if you prefer to sit up), soft lighting, and the noise machine is set to ocean wave sounds. Through a gentle, empathic, nonjudgmental, compassionate approach, clients are able to process deep feelings in a safe space and find healing within themselves. Clients who would prefer to only deal with current issues are never pushed further than they are ready to explore, yet often report feeling very relaxed due to the calming environment of the therapy room.
The Chaise Lounge is currently open and accepting new clients, both via teletherapy and in person for fully vaccinated individuals. Teletherapy sessions are done via zoom.
Feel free to browse the page or contact us to make an appointment. If you are currently experiencing a medical or psychiatric emergency, please call 911 or visit the nearest emergency room.
Treatment Modalities
Ellie Trotta is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with seven years of experience helping clients with a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, OCD, self-esteem issues, addictions, trauma, geriatric issues, career challenges, and chronic mental illness. She also has experience helping clients with trauma due to physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, as well as individuals who "feel stuck" due to emotional turmoil or relationship issues resulting from childhood abuse or abandonment.
Ellie views the therapist-client relationship as something that is highly sacred and treats her clients with respect, sensitivity, and unconditional positive regard. She believes validation and empathy are necessary parts of the therapeutic process and treats clients with a warm and compassionate approach. Her therapeutic approach also includes DBT, CBT, ACT, experiential, client-centered psychodynamic, mindfulness, narrative, inner child work, solution-focused, and humanistic techniques, specifically tailored to the needs of the client. She also helps empower clients to be experts of their own lives; the therapist is the tour guide but this is your therapeutic journey and Ellie will be respectful of working at a pace that is comfortable for you.
It takes courage to take these first steps in your therapeutic journey. Congratulations on your decision to prioritize yourself in order to obtain a happier and more fulfilled life.
Specialties:
Stress, Anxiety, Relationship Issues, Grief and Loss, Self Esteem Issues, Depression
Also experienced in:
Addictions, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Attachment Issues, Body Image, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication Problems, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Dependent Personality, Dissociation, Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Forgiveness, Guilt and Shame, Hoarding, Impulsivity, Isolation/Loneliness, Jealousy, Life Purpose, Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Military and Veterans Issues, Mood Disorders, Narcissism, Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks, Paranoia, Personality Disorders, Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-Love, Sex Addiction, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Social Anxiety and Phobia, Somatization, Women's Issues, Workplace Issues, Young Adult Issues
Clinical approaches:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
Years of Experience: 7
"You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are."
- Max Lucado
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
- Mr. Fred Rogers
Ellie Trotta, M.A., LPCC
Ellie graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Arts degree in Psychology in 2016 from California Southern University. She gained experience providing individual, couples, child, and family therapy while working on her traineeship at the San Fernando Valley Counseling Center. She accumulated her internship hours as a program therapist intern at a hospital based outpatient psychiatric program, providing group and individual therapy to chronically mentally ill adults. Ellie is also a PsyD Candidate in Clinical Psychology with plans to graduate in 2023. She is also writing a self-help book.