Healing Inside & Out from the Roots Up

Psychotherapy online for individuals, couples & groups

Welcome!

I’m so glad you’re here.

I am a holistically-minded psychotherapist in private practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and I am passionate about facilitating growth in my clients. I invite you to come join me on a journey toward fuller health and balance, greater connectedness and peace, deeper trust and joy. 

Compassion and safety, metaphors and stories, humor and creativity, education and movement are some of the tools I combine to help my clients feel understood, heal, and then grow. I adjust my style to what I sense a client needs as a whole person: body, mind, and spirit. Whatever the issue, I focus on helping clients heal from the roots up.

Ellen Ronka, Psychotherapist in Portsmouth, NH, for Chronic Pain & Fatigue, Energy-based psychotherapist, Couples Therapist smiles at camera, chin resting in hand. She wears a purple shirt and has dark curly hair. Surrounded by holistic therapy books
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Therapy for healing your symptoms, not just coping with them.

Your body is speaking to you, but you don’t understand what it’s saying. Meanwhile, your life is getting smaller and smaller. My healing process took way too long, but yours can be different. I can give you what I didn’t have: expert guidance that is informed by the latest pain science, personal experience, and years of training as a psychotherapist. Healing is an inside job, but I can show you how and support you on the journey.

Therapy that honors, cultivates and leverages your spirituality for healing. 

Your spirituality is an important part of your life — of you — and you want your therapy to take it into account. It impacts your worldview and you want a therapist who will not just accept it, but really work to understand it and operate within it. You want to feel safe exploring spiritual experiences and questions without the fear of judgment. You want to grow spiritually even as you heal emotionally. You decide how and how much we do that.

Therapy on a whole different level.

You have plenty of awareness and insight about the nature of your problem, but lasting change has been elusive. Energy healing methods designed for the psychotherapy context pick up where talk therapy leaves off. I use a variety of modalities to target the root of the issue and release the block, freeing you to feel and be different… for good.

Therapy that cultivates the intimacy you crave.

You’ve lost that spark. You’re doing life alongside each other, not really with each other. You’re bickering more and your arguments keep ending the same way — no solution, just hurt feelings and more distance. You used to feel close and connected, supported and valued. You don’t know how to get back there. I’ve helped countless couples do it. I can help you do it, too.

“The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.”

— Richard Rohr