Ellen Corcella is a faith leader, writer, speaker, and podcaster. She spent ten years as a hospital chaplain in level one trauma centers for adults and children. Prior to that time, Ellen was a New York City prosecutor handling cases involving murder, mobsters and drug trafficking gangs.

Ellen changed course, entered the seminary and became an ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). During her clinical training embedded with a surgical trauma team, she found herself wrestling with her childhood trauma and she tried to care for her patients. Ellen determined to learn a spiritual approach that honored the trauma suffered by critically ill, injured, and dying patients and their families and allowed her to walk with them on their journey.

She received training in trauma informed clinical care from the Arizona Trauma Institute, mindfulness and meditation from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, and Palliative Spiritual Care from California State University Shiley Haynes Institute. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and George Washington University.

Ellen is committed to providing resources and reflections about faith, spirituality, trauma and loss. Ellen created the Faith and Resilience Podcast and regularly writes about hope, courage, faith. Ellen serves as an Elder and leads the Green Chalice and Social Justice Ministries at Zionsville Christian Church, Zionsville, Indiana. She loves gardening, photography and trying to train Hope, her blue heeler mix and watching her cat lay in the sun.

She is available as a speaker and workshop leader and more information may be found at Ellen Corcella.