About Ashley
Ashley Hayes is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with eight years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She also supports those coping with illness, caregiver strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Ashley draws on a practical, client-centered way of working. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her and on setting realistic, achievable goals.
Background and approach
She listens for what the client needs and helps them hear their own thoughts more clearly. Her background includes work in oncology settings and personal experience as a cancer survivor. That perspective informs her whole-health outlook - paying attention to both body and mind when managing difficult problems.
It also shaped her interest in supporting people through serious illness, end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress. In-session, she uses mindfulness practices, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts, reduce unhelpful patterns, and commit to values-based action. She keeps language simple and focuses on small changes that add up over time.
Ashley is licensed in Rhode Island and Massachusetts as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - LICSW. She offers sessions in English and provides therapy by phone, video call, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled based on availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Ashley often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, sleep problems, and low mood because it breaks problems into clear, manageable steps.She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. ACT emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. This approach can help with worry, stress, and life changes by shifting the focus from avoiding feelings to meaningful living.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Ashley will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time so therapy matches the person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and styles. Video calls are closer to in-person conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can work for shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when travel or health issues make in-person visits harder.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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