Elli Billingsley, LPC

Elli Billingsley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Oklahoma State University. Elli aims to build a warm, empathetic relationship so people feel heard and supported from the start.

Her style leans toward client-centered care combined with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Sessions are adapted to each person's needs, with practical tools and simple exercises offered when they fit. Elli emphasizes clear communication and steady support rather than jargon or long lectures.

She has experience helping with anxiety, depression, stress, and identity concerns, including LGBT issues and intimacy-related struggles. She also works with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, and a range of other life challenges. Elli sees clients starting at age 5 and up and uses child-appropriate methods when needed.

In sessions with younger children she incorporates play-based techniques and trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy strategies. For adults she may draw on ACT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, mindfulness, and client-centered conversation to help people manage emotions and make meaningful changes.

Elli describes her goal as creating an affirming, non-judgmental space where clients can name goals and take practical steps toward them. She supports people who want to feel more confident, cope better with change, or work through relationship and intimacy-related concerns.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and move toward what matters to them. It uses simple exercises to clarify values and take small, values-based steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and practicing changes that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of working together. Elli will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, and then suggest ways of working that match those priorities. That collaboration can include trying different tools or mixing approaches until the client feels it fits.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce time spent traveling. It can also let people use mindfulness exercises or skill practice between meetings. Licensed professionals adapt techniques like ACT and CBT to the online setting so sessions stay focused on practical steps and progress rather than theory.