About Ashley
Ashley Donahue is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and focuses on practical strategies parents and adults can use right away. She speaks plain language and aims to make sessions feel manageable for people juggling family, work, and health concerns.
Ashley uses approaches that help people notice their thinking and try different behaviors. She often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear steps, not jargon, so clients leave with actions to try between meetings. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness to help with intense emotions, impulsivity, and relationship problems. That work can support parenting stress, anger, sleep difficulties, and feelings of isolation.
Ashley pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin and life transitions, and helps people set small, realistic goals. Clients may work on communication, boundaries, and decision-making when facing divorce, career shifts, or caregiving for older relatives. She offers coaching-style support for motivation and problem solving alongside therapy for trauma, grief, and bipolar mood management.
The aim is steady improvement through repeatable tools. Ashley approaches each person as an individual. She partners with clients to choose techniques that fit their day-to-day life and values.
That practical, step-by-step focus helps people build routines and cope with change more confidently.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Ashley often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take manageable action even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. ACT focuses on what matters most and builds everyday habits to move toward those goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT offers practical skills for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related organization and routines.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Ashley works with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and daily schedule. She adapts sessions over time so techniques are useful and realistic for the client’s life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and screen-sharing of worksheets. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief exchanges or between-session coaching into busy days. These formats give flexibility for parents, workers, and people managing multiple responsibilities while using the therapist’s tools and guidance.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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