Ellen Craine

Ellen Craine believes that the capacity to heal already exists within every person—her work as a therapist is to help people find and trust that capacity. An LMSW with thirty years of clinical and macro social work practice, Ellen founded Craine Counseling and Consulting to offer individualized support to people carrying grief, navigating fractured relationships, and facing the kind of slow-burn pain that doesn’t announce itself easily.

She works with individuals, couples, families, and children across a wide range of concerns: loss in all its forms—death, divorce, illness, major life transitions—as well as spousal conflict, parent-child struggles, co-parenting across any family structure, and families coping with pediatric cancer. When clients arrive depleted and overstimulated, often unable to settle even at the end of the day, Ellen treats that inability to rest as meaningful clinical information about a nervous system that has had no real reprieve.

Beyond direct practice, Ellen consults on social work ethics for practitioners, clinics, and attorneys, has served on the Michigan-NASW Ethics Committee including as past Chair, and teaches continuing education at institutions including the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. All sessions are available remotely, with limited in-person options, and a free 30-minute consultation is offered to start.