About Ashley
Ashley Barrett is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of clinical practice and long experience working with young people. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard feelings and begin to feel less overwhelmed. Ashley focuses on listening carefully and helping clients name what matters most to them.
She often helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, or struggles with self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports those navigating relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and challenges tied to career or life changes. Addictions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD are also areas she commonly addresses. Ashley pays close attention to how relationships and environment affect mental health.
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help clients develop tools they can use outside sessions. Therapy with her tends to be collaborative and warm; she aims to help people rewrite unkind self-talk and build emotional resilience. She has particular experience supporting women with hormonal health concerns, including premenstrual dysphoric disorder, peripartum depression, and related anxiety.
When useful, she involves partners or family members to improve communication and strengthen support systems. Ashley works with people in Missouri and conducts sessions in English. Her approach is steady and down-to-earth, focused on helping people feel more accepting of themselves and more able to handle everyday pressures.
How evidence-based techniques fit into online therapy
Ashley uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use day to day. One approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood; it teaches concrete ways to notice thoughts and try different responses. Another common focus is emotion regulation and stress management, which involves practicing coping skills, breathing or grounding strategies, and planning small routine changes to improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a joint effort. Ashley works together with each person to decide which techniques make sense for their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts strategies over time and checks in about what is helping and what needs to change so the plan stays useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual connection matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare, or other responsibilities while maintaining a consistent path forward.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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