Welcome!
Meet Ellen
Favorite Saying: “Light One Candle Instead of Cursing the Darkness.”
“Hi. My name is Ellen Truschel and I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and the CEO of Central Valley Counseling Center and Catholic Marriage Counseling and Retreat Center. I’d like to welcome you to my website. Whether you are struggling in your marriage, have concerns about your children or are seeking healing and growth for yourself I would love the opportunity to help you. Relationships are vital to living a full and satisfying life and yet they can at times be the most difficult challenge we face. Why is it that the ones we love the most may be the most difficult to be close to? How is it possible to be so distant from your partner or feel so overwhelmed with your children? Is your family in such severe conflict that you fear for your future and the future of your children. Have you lost touch with who you are and have you lost hope of achieving your goals and dreams? Let me assure you there is hope and healing waiting for you. I’ve been working in mental health for over 30 years in every kind of program you can imagine and now I am able to bring this experience directly to anyone who is seeking it. My approach is one of deep healing and restoration. I assess the root cause of your pain and the pain in your relationships and help you to gently release your past and your pain so that you can begin to live a more full and abundant life in the present. Treating the cause instead of treating only the symptoms allows you to truly heal and to connect more deeply with the relationships that mean the most to you. Is it possible for you to have love and peace in your life? Absolutely! When you are ready, give me a call for a free 15 minute phone consultation so I can answer any specific questions you might have and get you started. So once again, welcome, and I look forward to meeting you.”
Ellen’s Biography
Ellen Truschel was born and raised in the Central Valley of California and has recently relocated to Southeast Missouri. She has been blessed to be married to her wonderful husband Jeff for 31 years and has two amazing faith-filled adult sons.
Ellen is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the CEO of Central Valley Counseling Center which was established in 2007. She has worked in the field of mental health for 35 years and is now also working as a Catholic Relationship Coach and Spiritual Formation Coach with a focus on assisting clients through transitions, losses, and crosses. Ellen has served in a variety of ministries including youth ministry, marriage preparation, healing ministry, marriage retreats, healing retreats, and personal growth year-long programs. Her special calling is to strengthen Catholic Marriages through providing relationship skills workshops and retreats with the primary goal of mentoring Catholic couples to bring these skills to their own home parishes. Her favorite saying is to “Light one candle instead of cursing the darkness”.
She is a board member for the Brothers of the Works of Mercy which is a new apostolate that focuses on prayer and does outreach to her local community providing services that help to spread the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. She enjoys painting and ceramics, traveling with her husband, spending time with her family and friends, playing with her dog Winston, singing worship songs around the house (when no one is watching) and dreaming up new ideas on how to draw people closer to God.
How I Support Catholic Sacramental Marriages through Private Catholic Coaching Sessions and Online Workshops
“We Choose to Live Differently”
Catholic Marriages are Sacramental Marriages. A Sacramental Marriage is defined as one man and one woman uniting themselves with Christ placing HIS will over their own for the purpose of living a grace filled life. Sacramental Marriages require a couple to commit to certain daily, weekly, and yearly activities that protect the marriage while growing in intimacy with each other and Christ. Living out these practices allows the couple to grow and mature in their relationship with each other, their children, and the community that they live in. Living out this vocation provides graces that ripples out to each other, their families, their communities and to the world. God’s life-giving love is the foundation of every Sacramental Marriage and it is a necessity for maintaining peace in the world.
The Catholic Marriage Coaching Process provides a unique and specific support to these marriages, incorporating Catholic beliefs, values, and practices into the process of marriage coaching. Remembering that we were made in the image of Christ, we strive to reflect Christ in us. Unfortunately we often can fall into the mindset of trying to make Christ into our own image, resulting in a distorted view that waters down the life giving power that is available to us through the Holy Spirit.
If you would like to learn more or are interested in scheduling a Catholic Marriage Coaching session, attending a Marriage Retreat Intensive, or sign up for a Committed Catholic Couples online workshop, call me at 573-315-6559 or send me an email to mycatholiccoach@ellentruschel.com specifying your request.