About Ashley
Ashley Brinkman is a licensed professional clinical counselor with six years of experience practicing in Minnesota. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Ashley aims to create a respectful and sensitive space where people can talk through hard moments and take small, practical steps forward.
Her work often includes support for attention and focus challenges, mood shifts such as bipolar symptoms, and coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
She also helps people who struggle with anger, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. Sessions are framed around the client’s real-life needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Ashley uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches to make therapy feel useful and relevant.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. Conversations tend to focus on what someone can do this week to feel a little better. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She listens for what matters most to each person and tailors goals and exercises to fit daily routines. Many clients find this practical focus helpful when balancing work, family demands, or school responsibilities. Ashley works with adults seeking support for a wide range of concerns, including social anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and challenges around pregnancy, childbirth, or women's issues.
She offers sessions in English and practices from Minnesota.
Online approaches that fit your life
Ashley uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that match what matters, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and motivation struggles.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT gives clear exercises and short experiments clients can try between sessions to reduce panic, obsessive thinking, or social anxiety symptoms.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Ashley will talk with each person about their goals, daily routine, and preferences, then try methods that make sense for that context. She adapts plans over time based on what helps most and what feels doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or quick skill practice throughout the week. These options help people fit therapy around work, childcare, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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