About Ashley
Ashley Couch is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings seven years of clinical therapy experience and additional time working with youth and adults in schools, community programs, and home settings. Ashley writes plainly and meets people where they are.
She focuses on everyday problems like low self-esteem, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, eating-related issues, and career or parenting stress.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to LGBTQ concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. Ashley blends practical strategies with a strengths-based, mindful stance. Sessions emphasize learning skills, noticing patterns, and trying small changes between meetings.
She encourages radical self-love and sees the connection between emotional needs and everyday habits. Her approach uses several evidence-informed methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Client-Centered Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT). She adapts tools to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Ashley offers a range of online formats such as video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where avoidance keeps someone stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior and practicing new responses for depression, anxiety, and mood regulation. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving emotional connections, which can help with relationship pain and intimacy-related issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose which methods to try based on goals, comfort, and what has helped in the past. Sessions often mix techniques so people get practical skills alongside emotional processing.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain over time.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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