Professional Experience
Ashley’s professional experience includes counseling adolescents, adults, and couples since 2013. Her experience includes individual, marital, and group therapy. Ashley has experience counseling in the areas of pre-marital counseling, marital issues, family-of-origin issues, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, relationship issues, communication, and conflict-resolution.
Approach to Therapy
Ashley uses a holistic approach with clients and their issues. She utilizes a bio-psycho-social-spiritual understanding of a human being. This means that Ashley believes that in order to fully understand a person, one must look at him/her from the following four perspectives: biological, psychological, social, and spiritual. Each style of therapy brings something to the table and Ashley implements a variety of therapies based on what she believes matches each client’s needs and goals. Grounded in empathy, compassion, and concern for her clients, Ashley offers insight for change through Person Centered Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, and other therapies where appropriate.
Ashley’s Areas of Particular Interest/Specialties Include:
- Pre-marital Counseling
- Marital Conflict
- Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating
- Self-Esteem
- Health and Wellness
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Conflict resolution
- Spiritual issues