About Ashley
Ashley Stock is a licensed mental health counselor based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She works with clients dealing with life changes, grief, parenting concerns, career stress, and the strain of compassion fatigue. Ashley brings 13 years of experience to her practice and uses practical, evidence-informed methods to guide conversations.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, from breathing and grounding techniques to clearer problem-solving steps.
Background and approach
She blends client-centered listening with structured methods to help people make small, steady changes. Ashley uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different responses. She also draws on dialectical behavior tools for emotion regulation and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are part of her toolkit for setting goals and staying motivated through change. Those approaches are often helpful for career shifts, sobriety goals, or developing healthier routines. Her work is practical and rooted in real life.
Sessions aim to build coping skills, better communication, and a clearer sense of priorities. People leave with concrete steps they can try between sessions.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. It helps people feel heard and shape sessions around what matters most to them, which works well in video or phone conversations.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns and often uses short exercises and between-session practice that adapt easily to text or video formats.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Short skills coaching and step-by-step practice can be done over chat or brief phone check-ins as well as full sessions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick strategies that fit a client's life and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or shorter focused work. These options make it easier to practice skills between meetings and fit care into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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