About Ashley
Ashley Askins is a licensed counselor in Tennessee who focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and parenting concerns. She uses a practical, supportive style to help people notice strengths and take small steps toward change. She approaches sessions with a calm, steady presence and straightforward language so conversations feel clear and manageable.
She relies on methods that help people process difficult memories and reshape unhelpful thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps uncover patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and reactions. Her work also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to build skills for emotional regulation and to strengthen a person’s motivation for change. When trauma is central, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing may be used to lessen distress tied to painful memories.
These tools are offered with attention to the client’s pace and comfort level. Ashley frames therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people set realistic goals, practice new coping strategies between sessions, and track small wins.
Her approach is practical and grounded - she helps people find what works in day-to-day life. With five years of clinical experience and the LPC-MHSP credential, she brings focused experience working with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and addiction-related issues. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, aimed at making therapy useful and relevant to each person’s life.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current emotions and reactions; online sessions help people talk through relationship patterns and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can test small changes and build new habits during everyday life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used when trauma memories cause ongoing distress, and it can be adapted to remote work with guidance from the therapist.Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try approaches that fit their needs, and adjust methods if something isn’t helpful. Clients can expect regular check-ins about what is working and where to shift focus.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in without scheduling a full call, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use tools in the situations where they matter most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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