Hi! I'm Ellie, and I’m so glad you're here. As a therapist, I listen deeply and hold space for the magic of your soul to unfurl. Wherever you are on your journey, I will meet you there, and together we will illuminate your path to joy, relief and transformation.
I am a white, cisgender woman who has worked as a therapist in private practice in Baltimore, MD since 2017. I see folks in person or via telehealth in my office, which is located in a beautiful building in a historic mill district in the Hampden neighborhood. My primary training is in attachment-based, psychodynamic, and somatic modalities that guide my clients in healing past relational trauma through new experiences of repair and connection in the present moment.
I have several years of experience working as a somatic and attachment-based therapist, and while I’ve engaged in many different forms of training, my most formative training of all has been my own embodied experience as an ongoing client of somatic psychotherapy.
In 2015, I obtained my MSW from St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and began my career working as a clinical social worker at an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for adults with acute mental health challenges. Also in Minneapolis, I began practicing as a therapist in an integrative group practice, where I worked with young adults grappling with trauma, addiction, depression, and relationship issues.
Upon moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 2017, I established my private practice—Ellie J. Brown Psychotherapy, LLC—and began working as a clinical social worker on adult inpatient units at a Baltimore-based psychiatric hospital.
I have engaged in post-graduate training through the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training program, as well as the AEDP Institute (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a deeply relational and embodied contemporary modality.
I am committed to ongoing supervision and learning through a peer consultation group, and through AEDP and anti-racist focused consultation with an individual supervisor.
Here are some of my additional sources of ongoing training, inspiration, and learning:
- “The Embodiment Institute”, and Prentis Hemphill, author of “What It Takes to Heal”
- Embodied Ancestral Inquiry (EAI)
-Leslie Nipps’s Convivium Constellations
-The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB)
-Decolonizing Therapy with Dr. Jennifer Mullan
-Jessa Walters Evolutionary Astrology
-Resmaa Menakem and Somatic Abolitionism
-bell hooks - everything she has written, especially “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love.”
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
-Mary Oliver, from the poem “Wild Geese”