About Ashley
Ashley Barkley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship or parenting challenges. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people manage immediate problems and build skills for the future.
Ashley began working in counseling after completing a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in education with an emphasis in community counseling.
Background and approach
Early in her career she supported children who were reuniting with caregivers after foster care situations and gained experience with court-related processes. That work shaped her interest in parenting and adoption-related challenges. She later served as a school counselor, which deepened her understanding of how children and teens cope in group settings and at school.
That experience led her to focus on young adult issues and on common struggles in school environments. Ashley uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered methods to help people set the agenda for sessions.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and depression. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events are affecting daily life. Ashley frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps people set practical goals and builds strategies they can use between sessions. She works with people in Texas and offers care in English.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Ashley commonly uses client-centered therapy to guide sessions around each person’s priorities. This approach emphasizes listening and helping clients set their own goals, which can be useful for anxiety, relationship concerns, and parenting challenges.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical coping skills. CBT is often applied to anxiety, stress, and depression by practicing new ways of thinking and small behavior changes.
When past events continue to affect daily life, trauma-focused therapy is used to address those memories and their impact. That approach helps people reduce the hold of painful experiences and learn strategies to manage triggers and emotional responses.
Ashley views finding the right approach as a team effort. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as needed during online sessions.
Online care offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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