About Ashley
Ashley Whitman is a licensed social worker who helps people facing depression, anxiety, relationship problems, addiction concerns, and ADHD. She is a Michigan and Ohio clinician with ten years of practice as an LMSW and LISW. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps people can use right away.
Ashley uses clear conversation to help clients make sense of what’s happening for them. She focuses on building everyday coping skills, improving communication, and setting manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through challenges, trying small behavioral experiments, and noticing what works in daily life. She leans on client-centered methods, inviting each person to set the pace and priorities for therapy. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and to test new ways of acting.
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments. Ashley has worked with people dealing with trauma, grief, bipolar mood concerns, self-esteem struggles, and caregiving stress. She also supports those coping with life changes, career strain, sleep or eating concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her approach aims to help people notice strengths and try realistic changes. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging with expanded text options. She accepts international clients and schedules vary, with more evening video and phone slots.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
Approaches You Can Use Online
Ashley commonly draws from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client’s priorities so goals come from what matters most to the person. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and tries small experiments to change unhelpful cycles, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and ADHD-related routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work and she treats it as a collaboration. She will check in about what feels useful, adjust methods based on progress, and include client preferences when choosing techniques and homework tasks.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for evening check-ins, and live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue progress when in-person visits aren’t possible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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