About Ashley
Ashley Becker is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in Minnesota with eight years of direct counseling experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and other mood concerns. Ashley meets people where they are and aims to create straightforward, practical support.
She uses a person-centered style that lets clients set the pace and goals. Sessions often include checking what’s working, brainstorming small steps, and practicing new skills. Ashley brings skills from cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior therapy to help with thinking patterns and emotion regulation.
Background and approach
Ashley also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices to help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them. Motivational interviewing shapes conversations about change when someone feels stuck or unsure. She has experience with both inpatient and community outpatient settings, and with group therapy formats.
Her background includes work with serious and persistent mental illness as well as common concerns like panic, obsessive thinking, grief, and substance use. Ashley aims to reduce stigma and make it easier to talk about difficult experiences. She makes room for humor and everyday life details in sessions when that feels helpful.
People who value a collaborative, down-to-earth approach may find her style suited to tackling anxiety, coping with life changes, and building steady daily routines. Sessions focus on practical steps, personal values, and steady progress over time.
How ACT, CBT, and Client-Centered Work Online
Ashley uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. That approach can be useful for anxiety, mood problems, and when avoidance is getting in the way.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments. It is often used for panic, obsessive thinking, low mood, and anxiety to teach practical tools for change.
Client-centered therapy shapes sessions around the person’s priorities, offering a nonjudgmental space to set goals and try new strategies. This style supports collaboration and keeps the client in the lead when deciding which tools to use.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Ashley will talk with the client about needs, preferences, and goals and then shape sessions together. Often methods are combined so that skills practice, values work, and supportive conversation fit the person’s life.
Online therapy can make scheduling easier and allow steady work without travel. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can provide quick reflections, reminders, or between-session coaching for building daily routines and coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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