About Ashley
Ashley Brinkman is a licensed professional clinical counselor practicing in Minnesota. She has six years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or depression. She focuses on real-life problems like relationship tension, career stress, and big life changes.
Conversations are respectful and straightforward. Her work often addresses anger, trauma and abuse, and challenges linked to personality differences. She also helps people facing panic attacks, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and the impacts of post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
Ashley supports clients processing pregnancy and childbirth concerns and women's issues. She uses approaches that ask clients to notice what matters to them and to test new ways of responding to difficult thoughts. That can mean learning new skills for managing worry or changing patterns that undermine confidence.
Therapy sessions are adapted to each person's pace and goals. Ashley pays attention to communication struggles, blended family problems, forgiveness work, and issues around intimacy. She also offers support for people dealing with bipolar disorder, ADHD, or ongoing relationship difficulties.
Practical strategies and small, achievable steps are often part of the plan. Her manner is calm and compassionate. She aims to make sessions a place to sort things out, practice different choices, and build clearer next steps.
The focus is on helping people move toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take committed steps toward those values even when worries or painful thoughts are present. It often helps with persistent anxiety, avoidance, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is commonly used for anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts, and depression.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what is helpful. Clients and therapist work together to choose strategies that fit the person’s needs, pace, and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face time without traveling. Phone sessions work well when a shorter check-in is needed or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, journaling-style conversations, and support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity while working toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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