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An Upstate New Yorker with a long stint in the Bay Area from 1992-2005, Ellen is a lover of the untamed and weedy. A gardener, writer, meditation teacher, and parent of two young adults, she is happiest with a strong cup of tea in hand, quietly puttering in the garden, walking in the woods, or bantering with family.

With 25+ years of clinical experience as a Marriage and Family Therapist in community mental health clinics, hospices, and in private practice, she first came to contemplative practices and compassionate care in her early twenties by way of the Zen Hospice Project. The teaching from that time and the decades of professional and personal inquiry since continue to shape her - intimacy with death and grief teaches that compassion is a necessary companion to suffering and the dance with delight an outgrowth of an attentive heart. Her work is centered around the messy intersections of everyday life and spiritual practice, kindness and humor.