The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area - with one of the highest concentrations of attorneys in the U.S. - has been Ellen's professional and personal home since 1981.

After many years of providing psychological services to women attorneys, it became clear to Ellen that the majority of these women were not seeking help for the kinds of problems for which psychotherapy is designed.

Instead, these bright, high-functioning lawyers were trying to cope with the challenges of working in an extremely demanding profession, the norms of which reflect the lives of men far more than those of women.

Ellen founded Lawyers Life Coach LLC to provide professional coaching services to women - and men - lawyers wanting to achieve professional success without sacrificing those things that made their lives meaningful and fulfilling.

Lawyers Life Coach LLC provides professional development, career and executive coaching to attorneys and consultation to law firms. Through its virtual (by phone with e-mail and fax backup) individual and group coaching services, attorneys anywhere in the world can work toward goals related to work/life integration and balance, strategic career design, client development, leadership and effective communication.

Since the inception of Lawyers Life Coach LLC, Ellen's articles have appeared in more than 20 different bar association print and electronic publications. Women's bar associations throughout the U.S. have invited Ellen to address their members on strategies for balancing work and life; business development issues for women lawyers; and planning, designing and controlling one's career path. Ellen's virtual coaching groups have been sponsored by the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, The Colorado Association of Women Lawyers, Texas Women Lawyers, the Alabama State Bar Association and the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia as an exclusive membership benefit.

Ellen received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Rochester in 1980 and began her coaching training in 1998 in the MentorCoach™ Program, through which she is certified as a coach.

Prior to entering full-time independent practice in 1987, Ellen held faculty positions in the psychology departments of three universities and served as staff psychologist in the counseling centers of four universities. She teaches the "Strategic Career Design Master Class" for the MentorCoach™ Program.

Ellen serves on the advisory boards of the Project for Attorney Retention and the Project for Attorney Retention - Corporate Counsel. (http://www.pardc.org) Ellen also serves on the Board of Directors of the Third Path Institute.

A licensed psychologist, Ellen is a founding member of Metropolitan Behavioral Health Care, LLC, a multi-specialty group psychotherapy practice in Washington, D.C. and suburban Maryland.

Ellen lives in the D.C. area with her husband and 15-year-old son.

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