ELLA HUTCHINSON
LPC-S, CSAT, CCSAS, CCPS

Ella Hutchinson is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist trained under Dr. Stefanie Carnes, Dr. Ken Adams, Dan Drake, Kevin Skinner and other prominent sex addiction therapists.

Ella’s specialty is couples struggling with sexual addiction and partners of sex addicts. Ella serves as Vice President on the board of Certified Christian Sex Addiction Specialists.

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Ella is a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist, and has trained directly under Dr. Barbara Steffens and Marsha Means in the treatment of partners of sex addicts. She served three years on the founding board for the Association for Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS).

Ella specializes in marriage and relationship counseling with a focus on therapy for couples experiencing infidelity, sex addiction, pornography addiction and compulsive sexual behavior. She is passionate about advocating for wives of sex addicts, who are often given the harmful and inaccurate message that they played a role in their husband’s infidelity.

Counseling from a Christian perspective, Ella’s therapy environment is centered on authenticity and unconditional positive regard. Her own personal experience with sex addiction in her marriage gives her a unique and empathetic perspective as a therapist.

“My experience as a wife and mother, combined with my own personal struggles with depression and trauma, help me to relate to my clients in a unique way.”

— Ella Hutchinson

Ella’s counseling background includes treatment of a wide spectrum of relationship issues. She is ardently dedicated to working with couples dealing with infidelity, compulsive sexual behavior of a spouse and partners of sexual addicts.  Passionate about empowering wives, Ella believes, “A marriage can be healed from the damage caused by sexual addiction, if the addict is willing and motivated to get help and the wife is properly cared for and supported..”

Ella’s experience in the mental health field includes work within inpatient and outpatient facilities, MHMR, Austin Police Department Victim Services and Hospice. Her professional counseling work began in 2006 and and has included treatment of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychological crises and parenting in addition to marriage and relationship therapy. Ella has specialized primarily in treating partners of sex addicts, and couples struggling with sex addiction in their marriage, since 2010. She has also treated an increasing number of female sex and love addicts over the last few years.

Education

  • Master of Arts in Counseling, St. Edward’s University

  • Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Cameron University

Certifications

  • Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor

  • Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT)

  • Certified Christian Sexual Addiction Specialist (CCSAS)

  • Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS)

  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)

  • Trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)

Professional Associations