About Ashley
Ashley Spitzer is a licensed independent social worker who wants therapy to feel like your time. She speaks plainly and listens closely. Parents and adults who are worried about focus, mood, or daily stress often find her calm style easy to approach.
Ashley uses direct conversation to identify what matters most right now. She helps people name problems, try small changes, and set realistic steps they can manage at home.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and flexible so parents can fit them into busy days. With twenty years in behavioral health, Ashley has worked across many concerns. She has supported people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, addiction, trauma, ADHD, and caregiving stress.
Her work also touches on body image, blended family issues, chronic illness, and eating or sleep difficulties. Her approach combines acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally focused listening, and trauma-focused methods like EMDR. She adapts techniques to each person and invites feedback so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Ashley sees people age 13 and up and offers assessment and individual therapy. She emphasizes consistency, empathy, and boundary-setting as practical habits that improve daily life. Parents will find a straightforward partner who helps them set attainable goals and practice new skills between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for worry, stress, and choices that keep someone stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce distress and improve sleep, mood, or daily routines. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that guides a person through processing painful memories and the body sensations tied to them; it can help when past events still cause strong reactions.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs. She encourages feedback so adjustments can be made together if something does not feel helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and warmer connection. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people fit therapy into busy schedules and send thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and practice skills without long travel times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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