About Ashley
Ashley Craige is an LPC - a licensed professional counselor in Alabama with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship strain, and workplace or self-worth concerns. Ashley frames therapy as a practical partnership, listening first and tailoring each step to a person’s needs.
Ashley trained at the University of Mobile, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in marriage and family counseling.
Background and approach
She has worked in outpatient clinics, school-based programs, and residential settings. Her background includes substance use work and training other clinicians in the field. In sessions she uses approaches that fit the situation, drawing on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
That mix lets her help people manage immediate symptoms and build longer-term coping skills. She explains ideas clearly and focuses on actions someone can try between meetings. Ashley often supports people coping with big life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, or struggles related to identity and relationships.
She also works with concerns such as anger, low self-esteem, and grief. The work tends to be straightforward and goal-oriented while staying respectful of each person’s pace. Her practical stance emphasizes strengths and small steps.
Ashley encourages people to notice progress, adjust plans when needed, and keep moving toward a more balanced life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s priorities, reflects understanding, and helps people notice their own strengths and choices. This approach helps with anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions by building trust and clarity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works with thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It breaks problems into smaller parts and uses simple exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives practical tools to use between sessions.
Ashley treats finding the right method as a team effort. She will talk with the person about goals, try approaches that make sense, and adjust methods as needed. That collaborative process helps match techniques to the client’s needs, pace, and preferences.
Online sessions can make regular work on goals easier to maintain. Video calls suit conversations that benefit from visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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