About Ashley
Ashley Stock is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. She focuses on everyday struggles like low self-esteem, parenting strain, grief, and career stress. Her tone is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at people who want straightforward help.
She uses a collaborative style that centers the person's experience. Sessions often involve setting small goals and practicing concrete skills for coping.
Background and approach
Ashley blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build calmer routines. In sessions she helps people sort priorities, notice patterns, and try new ways of responding to stress. That can mean breaking a worry into steps, testing a new habit, or practicing short mindfulness exercises.
She also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, compassion fatigue, or career transitions by focusing on practical strategies that fit daily life. Ashley draws on 13 years of clinical experience as an LMHC - licensed mental health counselor. Her background includes work with mood disorders, panic, postpartum depression, and addiction-related concerns.
She keeps the work straightforward and goal-focused while staying flexible about approaches. People who reach out can expect clear discussion about what they want to change and simple tools to try between sessions. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to the reader's everyday realities and obligations.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ashley integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to shape online work. Client-centered therapy means sessions start with the person's priorities and experiences, with the therapist reflecting and clarifying what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routine challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashley works together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That collaborative planning can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as life changes or progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - add flexibility to that process. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or reminder-based skill practice into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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