Ellion Mangel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Tennessee with almost a decade of clinical experience in a multidisciplinary, outpatient community mental health. Ellion conducts individual and group psychotherapy, intake assessments, and crisis evaluations with clients. Ellion utilizes evidence-based interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive processing therapy, motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy.
Ellion began her journey to becoming a mental health professional after graduating with a Bachelor’s in Psychology from North Carolina State University in 2014. In 2017, Ellion graduated with a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Today, she is a Doctoral Candidate concentrating in Military Behavioral Health at the University of Kentucky, with an expected graduation in May 2025.
Ellion will present a Capstone Project on her research in April 2025. Ellion’s research is on moral injury in United States (U.S.) military service members and will present three products. The first product is a systematic literature review exploring group psychotherapy’s effectiveness in treating moral injury among U.S. military service members. The second product is a conceptual paper examining moral injury under the lens of existentialism. The third product is a practice application paper proposing a clinical practice perspective to treating moral injury. Ellion hopes her research will raise awareness of moral injury, its prevalence, and its impact on U.S. military service members to improve our service members’ overall mental and emotional well-being.