Ellen Singer, LCSW-C
Rockville, MD
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 35 years of experience helping couples and families. I draw on Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Therapy, and the Couples Institute Developmental Model. I work with all couples, specializing in high conflict, intimacy and sexual relationships, ADHD, parenting challenges, infertility, adoption, and blended families, and I warmly welcome LGBTQ+ couples.
Education & Experience
- M.S.W., Clinical concentration, University of Illinois
- 35+ years of experience serving couples and families
Specialties
- Marital & Premarital
- Relationship Issues
- Conflict Resolution
- Intimacy
- Communication
- Sexless/Withdrawn
- Affair & Infidelity Recovery
- Family Systems & Life Changes
Trainings, Certifications, and Continuing Education
- Clinical case consultation group developing expertise in Dr. Richard Schwartz’ Internal Family Systems Model, Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intimacy from the Inside Out (online course), Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. and Toni Herbine-Blank, MS, IFS Institute
- Clinical Externship in Marriage and Family Therapy, Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
- Our Home Our Family Training – couple and family communication and relationships curriculum developed by John and Julie Gottman, Coalition for Children, Youth and Families, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- The New Science of Couples and Family Therapy
- Enhancing Assessment in Couples Therapy: New Approaches to Improving Outcomes
- The Gottman Method Approach to Better Couples Therapy
- Couples Therapy for Treating Trauma: The Gottman Method Approach
- Recovering from an Affair: A Gottman Research Based Treatment for Infidelity, Scott Wolfe, Ph.D. (JSSA)
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Step by Step, Rebecca Jorgensen, Ph.D.
- Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Kathryn Rheem, Ed.D., LCMFT (JSSA)
- When to Lead as a Therapist and When to Follow: Integrating EFT, Imago and Internal Family Systems Therapy, Jette Simon, MA (JSSA)
- Addressing Attachment and Problems of Intimacy in Adults with Emotional Dysregulation, Georgia DeGangi, Ph.D. (JSSA)
- Sexual Addictions, Christopher Kraft, Ph.D. (JSSA)
- Sex Therapy for the General Therapist – Marianne Brandon, Ph.D. (JSSA – Jewish Social Service Agency, Rockville, MD)
- The State of Affairs: Rethinking our clinical attitudes toward infidelity, Esther Perel, MA, LMFT (The Middle Atlantic Division of AAMFT and The University of Maryland Family Science Department), Columbia, MD
- Center for Adoption Support and Education, Certificate, Train
ing in Adoption Competency (TAC) - Primed for Life: Psychotherapy for Marital and Family Issues of Older Adults, Barry Jacobs Psy.D.
- Parenting Youth in LGBTQ+ Adoptive Families, David Brodzinsky, Ph.D., Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) webinar
Ellen’s Approaches include the following:
- Gottman Method
- Imago Therapy
- Relational Life Therapy by Terry Real
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
Locations Ellen Works
Rockville, MD
Our Counselors Association Memberships Include:
