About Ellen Grossman

MS, RN, NP, Certified IFS Practitioner

Education: 
University of California, Berkeley.  BA Psychology and Sociology
University of California, San Francisco MS, RN, NP, CNM

About:
Ellen Grossman deeply identifies as an Edge Dweller.  She lives and practices at the intersection of many ecosystems.

As Nurse-Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, ceremonialist, shamanic practitioner, wilderness rite of passage guide, Somatic IFS and Certified IFS Practitioner she has accompanied thousands of women through deep rites of passage. She now works with individuals who are seeking to give birth to themselves as powerful participators in life.

She has a private counseling practice, incorporating Internal Family Systems counseling, Bill Plotkin’s Map of the Psyche and shamanic journeying. She is particularly interested in the practice of Soul Conversation—conversation with the various parts of our self and conversation with the Self of the Other than Human world.

The edge effect is an ecological concept that describes how there is a greater diversity of life in the region where the edges two adjacent ecosystems overlap, such as land/water, or forest/grassland. At the edge of two overlapping ecosystems, you can find species from both of these ecosystems, as well as unique species that aren’t found in either ecosystem but are specially adapted to the conditions of the transition zone between the two edges.

Ellen lives on the Olympic Peninsula and swims in the Salish Sea on unceded land of S’Klallam people.  She and her husband are humble parents of 3 wonderful young women.