About Ashley
Ashley Burk is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Colorado. She holds LCSW and CSW credentials and brings four years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people navigate related concerns such as depression and low self-esteem.
Ashley uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts conversations to fit each person's needs. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate environment. Sessions are shaped around what matters most to the client and practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people coping with trauma and abuse, family problems, and communication difficulties. She also addresses issues like chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment concerns, and feelings of isolation or emptiness. Ashley works with individuals facing eating and food-related worries, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and blended family challenges.
She draws on four years of experience across Colorado and Montana practice settings to inform her approach. People who come to her can expect straightforward talk about goals and small, achievable steps. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and focuses on practical strategies to reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
Evidence-based approaches and remote care
Ashley uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical, real-world strategies. One common approach emphasizes teaching coping skills and stress management tools to reduce anxiety symptoms and improve daily functioning. Another approach centers on processing experiences of trauma and abuse at a pace chosen by the client, helping people build safety and regain a sense of control.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on progress and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet that fit different lives. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or when writing helps people organize thoughts. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days when leaving home is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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