Discover the AVENUES to

Living Life Fully

Ellen Peterson combines counseling, heart centered therapy & personal growth workshops through her practice in Ithaca, NY. Teletherapy sessions also available.

MEET ELLEN PETERSON

The Joy Therapist

Meet Ellen Peterson, the Joy Therapist—a psychotherapist, counselor, life coach, and award-winning self-help author with more than 30 years of experience counseling individuals, couples, and groups. Through her counseling practice, Ellen helps people overcome challenges, create positive change, and build happier, more fulfilling lives.

Ellen’s approach focuses on helping people recognize the patterns that keep them stuck, gain greater self-awareness, and discover practical strategies for meaningful change. Known as the Joy Therapist, she encourages clients to move beyond simply getting through life and begin embracing greater happiness, purpose, and possibility. In addition to her counseling practice, Ellen offers life coaching to individuals outside New York State who want to create a life they truly love.

 

Avenues Counseling Center offers various services to TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE

in person & telehealth

COUNSELING

Avenues Counseling Center offers the convenience of In-person, Telephone and Teletherapy sessions through a HIPAA compliant website. Whether you prefer in person sessions or teletherapy sessions, we are pleased to make counseling safe and convenient for you.  Please specify your choice of appointment when scheduling. 

personal growth

WORKSHOPS

upcoming Workshops

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powerful guided

MEDITATIONS

Allow Ellen Peterson to guide you through powerful meditations that will change your life. Each meditation uses guided imagery to assist you in opening your heart and your mind. You will emerge more peaceful, more hopeful and more importantly, transformed.

 

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books by ellen peterson

Book cover of Loving Your Life Again by Ellen Peterson, featuring a winding path through purple flowers toward sunlit mountains beneath a glowing sky.

Loving your life again: Moving beyond the emotional obstacles to happiness and fulfillment

Loving Your Life Again explores the emotional obstacles that can keep us from experiencing happiness and fulfillment. Drawing on my years of experience as a psychotherapist, I offer practical insights and tools to help you recognize limiting beliefs, heal the impact of the past, and move beyond patterns that may be keeping you stuck.  This book is an invitation to let go of merely surviving and begin creating a life that feels more meaningful, connected and fulfilling. 

Paid In Full: Freedom From Emotional And Financial Indebtedness

Are you ready to let go of struggle and create a life of greater ease and abundance? Paid in Full is an essential guide to transform the emotions that keep you imprisoned in obligation and emotional indebtedness.

Book cover of Choosing Joy, Creating Abundance by Ellen Peterson

Choosing Joy, Creating Abundance: Practical Tools for Manifesting Your Desires

Offering a psychological and spiritual perspective on prosperous living, psychotherapist Ellen Peterson explores the practical dimensions of abundance.