About Ashkan
Ashkan Shadi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with eight years of professional experience. He focuses on stress and anxiety along with relationship and intimacy-related concerns. He also helps people who are dealing with low self-esteem, career doubts, and motivation problems.
Ashkan centers sessions on each person's own story and strengths. He treats clients as the experts on their lives and works together with them to set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and practical, aimed at small changes that add up over time. Common topics he addresses include attachment patterns, communication problems, control issues, and feelings of guilt or shame. He also supports people facing isolation, midlife questions, money worries, and struggles with sexual identity or self-love.
Obsessions, compulsions, and mood concerns are part of his experience as well. He uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to fit what each person needs in the moment. Sessions are straightforward, focusing on skills you can use between meetings.
The pace and tools are chosen with the client's goals in mind. Ashkan offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. He works online using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, and helps people find a way of working that fits their schedule and life.
Evidence-based approaches and how they work online
Ashkan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and clearer understanding of patterns. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaching practical skills to change them. This helps people manage anxiety, mood swings, and overwhelming worry by giving clear tools to use between sessions.Another approach centers on relationship and attachment patterns. It helps people notice how past experiences shape current reactions and teaches ways to communicate needs more clearly. This approach can ease intimacy issues, improve communication, and reduce repeated conflicts.
Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. Goals and methods are reviewed and adjusted as progress is made so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different lifestyles. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or reflective notes easy between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, travel, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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