About

Dr. Franklin William Ellis, Jr. is from Florence, SC. His father served 22 years in the army, which allowed Dr. Ellis to travel throughout his entire childhood, a practice he continues to date. He has lived in eight states and one other country, Germany. He is a proud graduate of Coastal Carolina University where he earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy. He earned his master’s in mental health counseling from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio as well as his license as a clinical counselor and his doctorate in marriage and family therapy from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Westwood, California. He is a relationship expert able to work with couples, singles, families and any entities such as teams that have relational aspects.

Dr. Ellis is a specialist in multicultural counseling with a concentration in demonstrating to non-Black/African Americans on how to serve Black/African Americans within the mental health system to aid in making the process more familiar and familial to encourage higher numbers of Blacks/African Americans to utilize mental health services. Inclusion and social justice work is Dr. Ellis’ passion. He works diligently advocating for equality and equity for all individuals with systemically non-dominate (Jenkins, 1995-present) identities by creating spaces that affirm those with systemically non-dominate (Jenkins, 1995-present) identities, while also aiding in the education of people in systemically dominate (Jenkins, 1995 -Present) identities. Dr. Ellis is able to achieve this goal of providing exceptional Inclusion education workshops, relationship enhancement seminars and life coaching through his consulting business Frank Interactions.

Dr Ellis’ career has spanned over 20 years, beginning in residence life where he later transitioned into multicultural services as well as teaching courses in higher ed on various college campuses. Diversity and inclusion work has always been at the core of all of his endeavors. Dr. Ellis is a thought innovator and positive change agent that describes himself as a synergist, scholar-practitioner and educator, as his creativity and dynamic presentation style has earned him the reputation for being an energetic intellectual visionary with impeccable communication capabilities that have positively affected various universities, institutions and businesses nationwide.