About Ashley
Ashley Crank is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, parenting pressures, or trauma. She speaks plain language and aims to make conversations feel direct and useful for everyday life.
Ashley has about five years of clinical experience and has served people in a variety of settings. Her background includes work in inpatient treatment, therapeutic foster care, and schools, so she is used to different treatment environments and needs.
Background and approach
She has supported people facing severe neglect, abuse, post-traumatic stress, mood disorders, and strong family conflict. Her approach is collaborative and empathetic. She meets people where they are, then offers gentle challenges when someone is ready to try new strategies.
She uses methods drawn from attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused practices, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies to shape sessions around what helps most. In practical terms she will listen for patterns in thinking and behavior, try small experiment-style changes, and work on household or parenting routines when relevant. Sessions often include skills practice, emotion naming, and clear steps to try between meetings.
Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. Ashley accepts people living in Texas and also sees international clients in English. She aims to support parents, young adults, and individuals coping with life changes by offering direct, steady guidance and problem-solving tools.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy helps by looking at how early relationships shape current reactions. In sessions the therapist will help name patterns in close relationships and practice different ways of responding to reduce reactivity and build trust in interactions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online sessions will include identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying new behavioral experiments, and practicing skills to reduce anxiety or low mood between meetings.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy targets strong emotions that get in the way of connection and self-understanding. In practice this means identifying core feelings, tracking how they show up in relationships, and learning new ways to communicate about them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is seen and new needs emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options offer flexibility to fit work schedules, caregiving duties, and different comfort levels with communication.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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