About Ashley
Ashley Pierce is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Texas. She is an Army veteran and brings three years of clinical experience to sessions. She offers a direct, supportive approach for people tackling trauma, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and depression.
She spends sessions listening first, then helping people set small, practical goals. She uses straightforward techniques to manage symptoms and build daily coping skills. Conversations can include looking at thoughts and behavior patterns, exploring personal stories, and practicing new ways to respond under stress.
Background and approach
Ashley also helps people dealing with substance use concerns, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, problems with trust or infidelity, and persistent feelings of emptiness or isolation. She pays attention to how relationships and past experiences shape current struggles and looks for ways to restore hope and meaning. Her style blends hands-on problem solving with space to tell hard stories.
She encourages skills practice between sessions and checks progress regularly. Sessions are intended to be honest and practical, with an aim toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions. Ashley works with adults in Texas and offers multiple online session formats.
She speaks English and provides care under her Texas LCSW credential.
How Ashley uses therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with depression, anxiety, and persistent avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, then practices concrete skills to change them; it often helps with anxiety, mood struggles, and phobias. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce impulsive reactions and intense emotional responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and pace. That may mean starting with one approach and adding others if needed, or mixing techniques from different models to solve real problems.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a shorter break. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working toward steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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