About Ashley
Ashley Patton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps that people can use right away. She listens carefully and helps people set clear, manageable goals for change.
Ashley works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and trauma and abuse. She also supports those coping with grief, sleep or eating struggles, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and the strain of caregiving.
Background and approach
She helps with relationship and communication problems, body image, and career stress as well. Her style is direct and collaborative. Sessions usually focus on identifying patterns, building new skills, and testing small changes between meetings.
She uses everyday language and concrete tools so people can try strategies outside of sessions. Ashley draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, motivational interviewing, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused work. She adapts these approaches to fit each person’s goals and pace rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are part of her practice and are arranged by appointment. People can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging depending on what works best for their schedule and needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to pair people with scheduling options.
Approaches that fit online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change mood and functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress. DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills that can reduce intense reactions and improve relationships. Motivational interviewing is a brief, conversational approach that helps people find their own reasons to make changes, often used for substance use or when motivation feels stuck.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan as needed so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is useful for longer weekly sessions and hands-on skill work. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers shorter written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of connecting.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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