About Ashley
Ashley Askins is a licensed professional counselor with a focus on stress, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD. She brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions. She listens for strengths and builds on what already works in a person’s life.
Ashley views clients as experts in their own stories and emphasizes small, manageable changes. She uses short-term tools and longer-term strategies depending on what each person needs. Sessions are paced to fit real life and make progress feel doable.
Background and approach
Her background includes work supporting people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, anger, and mood conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder. That experience informs how she helps clients cope with cravings, triggers, and intense emotions. She also addresses issues like guilt, shame, and finding purpose.
Ashley often draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking. She also uses EMDR methods for trauma processing and mindfulness practices to build calm and focus. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is weighing change.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She explains tools in plain language and checks in about what is useful. People who want a mix of practical exercises, reflective work, and coaching-style planning tend to find her approach a good fit.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ashley uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT often includes simple exercises to track thoughts and try small behavioral changes aimed at reducing anxiety and improving focus.She also works with attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationship patterns affect current reactions and closeness with others. This approach helps people who want clearer boundaries, steadier relationships, or to reduce reactivity in stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and daily routine. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods if something isn’t helpful.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you work face to face for skills practice and emotional processing. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or hands-free conversation helps. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework prompts, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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