About Ashley
Ashley Bennett is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with six years of clinical experience based in Ohio. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Maryland and a Master of Social Work from The Ohio State University. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family concerns.
Her approach centers on practical steps and steady support as people make changes in their lives.
Background and approach
Ashley believes clients know their stories best and brings a collaborative stance to each session. She listens for strengths and builds small, doable goals that fit daily life. Sessions often include problem-solving, skill practice, and reflections that help people notice what’s already working.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including parenting strain, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body image challenges, anger, and self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and the effects of abuse or neglect. Ashley is attuned to attachment and adoption-related issues as well as questions around alternative sexual cultures and kink.
In session she draws on several practical methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, attachment-based ideas, narrative work, and motivational interviewing. These approaches help people reframe painful thoughts, calm physical symptoms, and rewrite unhelpful patterns. Her style is straightforward, warm, and goal-oriented.
Ashley offers work in English and provides online options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She supports people who want steady care and clear steps toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Attachment-Based Therapy helps look at how early relationships shape current patterns. It focuses on building safer ways to relate and can be useful for attachment concerns, adoption or foster care questions, and relationship struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns to reduce symptoms and teach coping strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Sessions are collaborative so techniques are adjusted over time based on what makes the biggest difference for the client.
Online therapy offers many practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between sessions or connect when typing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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