LPC/MHSP, 10 years of experience
Hello! I am a licensed mental health counselor with more than 10 years of experience. I specialize in providing transformative individual therapy for adults and teens. My extensive experience encompasses a wide range of client issues, with key focuses on general anxiety, social anxiety, OCD, life transitions, dating and relationship challenges, and depression. Embracing a wellness perspective, I am passionate about tapping into your inherent strengths and abilities to pave the way for healing. I highly value your unique individuality, and my treatment methods are adaptable to diverse values and needs. By considering your holistic health, I aim to help you make swift and enduring results in your mental well-being journey.
The first session is all about getting to know you and making treatment goals together. I tend to ask a lot of questions in the first session about your background and symptoms to get as much information as possible, but I am also totally ok with going a bit off track and allow the unfolding to occur naturally.
I have extensive experience in treating a wide array of client issues from diverse demographics. I believe that diversity is a strength and I love to challenge my client's with new perspectives. By practicing holistically, I believe that I can help client's to achieve results faster. For example, I believe leading client's in making small changes in nutrition and lifestyle habits can have a lasting positive impact on mental health as all aspects of health are connected.
I love working with client's who are motivated for change but need some help in meeting their goals. I tend to give homework outside of sessions, so I expect my client's to put in the work! I am simply a guide to help my clients achieve lasting results. I enjoy working with adults and older teens of all backgrounds. While anxiety is my top specialty, anxiety often shows up with other issues such as depression. There is no one size fits all. I have ample experience in treating social anxiety and relationship issues on an individual basis including helping clients of any age to navigate difficult dating situations and to create more healthy romantic relationships.
2 ratings with written reviews
July 17, 2025
After our first session, I left feeling heard and I am optimistic that we can work together to accomplish great things for my mental health. Ashley is very warm and kind. She never made me feel self-conscious or ashamed of anything I said. I am excited to work with her further!
April 29, 2025
Ashley has made such a big impact on my mindset and how I see things. The exercises she chooses are authentic and always lead to self-reflection and learning more about who I am. Some days I just need to talk and get everything out and she is always patient with me and lets me just be open and get things off my chest. I’m so happy I found Grow Therapy but I’m especially grateful for Ashley and look forward to continuing my therapy journey with her.
ACT is a values based treatment approach. I explore the client's values in order to assist client's in taking actions towards a more positive mindset reflecting their personal values.
With a CBT approach sessions often look like examining how thoughts, feelings, and actions are interconnected. We can work at processing thoughts and feelings to create lasting change.
I received my master's degree from a Christian University. I am happy to incorporate spirituality into sessions and draw from religious strengths. I offer this type of counseling in as much as the client desires, and always seek to allow the client to lead based on their own experiences with Christianity.
I have advanced training in using integrative methods to treat mental health disorders. This means examining how whole health affects mental health. For example, taking a look at nutrition, movement, somatic interventions and herbal remedies.
I believe that every person possesses natural strengths that will help them on their healing journey. By starting with examining strengths, I seek to create a space of positivity by starting from a place of abundance rather than lack.