South Florida Holistic Counselor
Ellen Brazer is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Advanced Radix Practitioner. She has over 30 years of experience in her field. She practices a Holistic/Somatic Approach to Psychotherapy in her Boynton Beach, Fl. office.
Somatic Psychotherapy embraces a comprehensive and holistic approach which incorporates the body, where we hold our tension and emotion.
She does individual, couples, family, group, and workshop sessions with those that choose to lead a richer and more fulfilling life.
Her clients come from all over the Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and South Florida areas.
She graduated from the University of Florida in Psychology in 1976, and received her Masters in Counseling from Florida State University in 1978.
She received her Radix Teacher Certification in 1994, as well as completing the Radix Advanced Training course. Ellen is also a Certified Supervisor and offers Clinical Supervision for Mental Health Professionals.
Her training encompasses many alternative modalities including Gestalt, John Bradshaw’s Inner Child Work, Hypnosis, Visualization, Neurolinguist Programming (NLP), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Bioenergetic Breath work, Psychodrama, and more. With all of her vast knowledge and utilization of many techniques, Ellen can apply the most appropriate and effective approach to each client.
Benefits of Using A Holistic Practitioner
Ellen is well versed in all areas having to do with emotions. She has a strong expertise working with couples, and has been in a conscious loving relationship with 
her husband for 40 years. She is also very devoted to working with parenting issues.
Families need good, solid guidance and support with parenting issues, and building skills necessary to be the best parents they can be for their children, without letting their own unresolved childhood issues get in the way.
Ellen has successfully raised two spirited daughters. She has grown tremendously from being a parent. Ellen is also now thoroughly enjoying being the grandparent of 4, and considers them to be life’s most precious gifts.
Ellen empowers her clients by utilizing a variety of tools to help them to move forward, face their fears, and become more whole and present in their lives. When we face our fears, we can live with more trust and faith.
Ellen has a dynamic way of creating a safe and trusting environment where her clients are free to be themselves without judgment. They are supported in making any changes necessary to see things in new way, heal from the past, and let go of what might be holding them back from being fully alive, and loving to themselves and others.
My Philosophy
Many therapeutic approaches leave the body out of the equation. Mind/Body Integration is a very important part of the healing process. Working with the breath is a powerful tool to access what is being repressed, unconsciously, in the body’s cells.
This approach is quite useful in releasing held or blocked emotions that can hold us back in our lives, providing a liberating and freeing experience to attend to what is left unfinished, unresolved or unhealed in the body.
We feel more whole and connected when we are able to accept the whole range of our feelings and expression of ourselves. We often don’t realize how much energy it takes to hide who we are or how we feel, until we release it and free that energy for better use.
Many addictions are about self-abandonment, running from the parts of ourselves that we fear, judge, or are unable yet to love or forgive. It is the truth, our truth, that ultimately sets us free. We are only as sick as our secrets.
Many of us are afraid to face our secrets and wallow in self hate. This therapy process helps us to face our “shadows” or dark sides, and find ways to form more loving relationships with ourselves, thus improving our self esteems. Having a loving relationship with yourself is the key to a healthy self esteem.
Anxiety and Depression are part of what many experience in today’s society. Breathwork is a wonderful tool that helps us to get still, and listen inside to the parts of ourselves that need attention and love. When we abandon and ignore ourselves, we can begin to feel anxiety, and depression brewing. It is now a critical time for us to listen inside and heal.
We, as a universe, are in a process of learning to love and be loved, from a higher place. That means no longer loving from a place of guilt, struggle, sacrifice, worry, fear or suffering. As we practice being who we are and loving who we are, what keeps showing up are the dark places, where we do not yet love ourselves fully.
We then have a rich opportunity; to bring what’s dark into the light for healing. We can continue choosing to evolve, choosing to be “love”, becoming the highest power there is!
If you have any questions for South Florida Holistic Counselor, Ellen Brazer, MS, LMHC contact her today at 305-333-2718.
