About Ashley
Ashley Whitman is a licensed social worker who helps people manage anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, relationship strain, and other everyday struggles. She keeps the first conversations simple and practical so people can begin feeling steadier sooner. Whitman uses clear, down-to-earth methods to help clients name what feels hard and try small changes.
Sessions focus on immediate tools for coping, and on building longer-term skills for self-understanding and resilience. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, and motivational techniques when they fit the person’s goals.
Background and approach
With ten years of clinical experience, Ashley blends structured work with a warm, listening style. She supports people coping with grief, trauma and abuse, mood concerns, ADHD, and stress related to caregiving or chronic illness. She also addresses intimacy and communication problems, body image, and career-related worry.
Ashley holds a Master of Social Work and holds the LMSW and LISW credentials. She is licensed to practice in Michigan and Ohio and offers sessions in English. She welcomes people from a wide range of backgrounds, including those managing life changes and recovery from addictive behaviors.
Her practice is flexible in format and timing. Ashley offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, with many evening options for video and phone meetings. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How Ashley’s approaches work online
Ashley often uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients notice patterns of thought and behavior and try concrete experiments to change them. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and unhelpful coping habits.She also uses client-centered therapy to create a listening, non-judgmental space where people can talk through difficult feelings and get clearer about what they want. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding inner reasons to make a change, such as in addiction recovery or shifting health habits.
Finding the right approach is a joint effort. Ashley will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as needed. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for deeper, face-to-face work during evenings. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief coaching or ongoing check-ins into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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