About Ashley
Ashley Kingston is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who offers online therapy from Montana. She brings six years of clinical experience helping adults navigate anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps clients can use each week and adapts sessions to each person’s pace and needs.
Ashley emphasizes a collaborative, client-centered approach. She sees therapy as a joint process where the client’s goals guide the work.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking, skill practice, and simple exercises to help manage stress and improve relationships. Her background includes a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in addiction, and she holds the LCPC credential. Ashley integrates attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior techniques to address patterns that keep problems going.
In sessions she may offer mindfulness exercises, grounding practices, and breathwork alongside cognitive strategies. She also draws on existential themes to help people find meaning during life transitions and when coping with grief or chronic illness. Ashley provides therapy by phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She prefers not to use video and structures work to fit each client’s comfort. The first steps are completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to availability.
How Ashley’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy helps by looking at how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this can mean noticing how trust and closeness show up in day-to-day relationships and trying new, small ways of responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different actions to change feelings and behavior. It often includes homework and simple skill practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to reduce crisis moments and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ashley treats therapy as collaborative and will help clients decide which methods fit best based on their goals, needs, and comfort. She adapts techniques to each person and checks in about pacing and priorities as therapy progresses.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is not preferred or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions, do shorter skill-focused meetings, or schedule sessions that fit a work break. These options add flexibility while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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