About Ashley
Ashley Johnnies is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with five years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, and depression. Ashley emphasizes a strengths-based view and supports people as they take steps toward change.
She uses a direct but empathetic style. Sessions typically focus on practical skills and clear goals. Conversations aim to break worries into manageable steps and build skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Ashley blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking. She also uses client-centered methods to make space for each person's values and choices.
Her work often addresses relationships, intimacy concerns, grief, and parenting stress. She also helps people facing issues like abandonment, body image, codependency, and communication problems. When trauma or abuse is present, she works at a pace the person feels ready for.
People can expect practical tools, reflective listening, and clear planning. Ashley encourages small changes that add up over time. Her aim is to help people feel more steady and capable as they move forward.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and commit to small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and direction when life feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. That approach aims to reduce worry and improve mood by changing patterns of thinking and behavior. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person leads the pace and topics of sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to pick methods that match a person's goals, needs, and comfort level. Treatment can shift over time as priorities change, and the therapist will check in regularly about what is working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and use worksheets together. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and work well for check-ins. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and to try different formats until one feels right.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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