About Ashley
Ashley Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and addictions. She welcomes questions and aims to create a calm space for people to talk through what matters to them. Her tone is straightforward and practical, focused on helping clients make small, manageable changes.
With six years of clinical experience, Ashley draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She combines client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-based thinking when those fit the situation. Sessions focus on understanding emotions, learning coping skills, and setting realistic goals.
Ashley helps people spot patterns that keep them stuck and practices new ways of responding. Conversations are grounded in everyday language and step-by-step problem solving rather than clinical jargon. She works with concerns including self-esteem struggles, intimacy-related issues, anger, family problems, and challenges tied to gender identity and HIV/AIDS.
Ashley also addresses communication problems, codependency, control issues, dissociation, and substance use concerns. Therapy can include short coping strategies, skill building, and longer-term work on attachment and meaning. People often leave sessions with practical homework and simple tools to try between meetings.
Ashley offers sessions in English and accepts international clients from Alabama-based practice arrangements.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Ashley uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, and it often includes simple exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and try new patterns of relating.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Ashley will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexibility with several formats. Video calls make it easy to have a conversation that feels most like in-person work. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a quick break during the day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and continue progress between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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