Elle Skelton, BC-TMH, LCPC, LPCC, LPC, LPC-MHSP
Elle is the Owner of Self-Empowerment Counseling, a Board Certified TeleMental Health Provider, and is a multi-state Licensed Professional Counselor including Illinois (LCPC), Kentucky (LPCC), Oklahoma (LPC), Tennessee (LPC-MHSP), and Florida. She currently lives in the Chicago area and provides professional counseling to individuals in all five states. Elle earned a Masters in Counseling Psychology and is where she first started her training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapy. She continued her training working at a higher level of care in 2017 providing individual and group counseling along with providing support to patients’ family members via family sessions. Since graduate school, she has completed over 5,800 supervised hours working with patients struggling with OCD and its related disorders, generalized anxiety, depression, and eating disorders in the PHP (Partial Hospitalization Program) and IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program) levels of care. Elle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure Response Prevention, Behavior Activation, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and incorporates DBT Skills to treat a variety of disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder, skin picking, hair pulling, hoarding, phobias, body dysmorphic disorder, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder, depression, eating disorders, and TIC/Tourette.
Elle is on the board for OCD Midwest (Chapter of IOCDF including IL, IN, and OH), attends annual IOCDF conferences, and volunteers at the IOCDF OCD Kids Camp. She is an active member in the mental health community attending continuing education (CEU) and training events, involved in research studies and new therapy trainings to be on top of new research and therapies to provide the best Patient care.