About Ashley
Ashley Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship problems, and low self-esteem. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what is most urgent for each person. Her approach aims to make daily life feel more manageable and meaningful.
Ashley has six years of experience as a therapist and brings both personal and professional perspective to sessions. She meets people where they are and treats each session as a collaborative effort.
Background and approach
Expect straightforward conversations about feelings, habits, and what changes would help in day-to-day life. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including depression, intimacy-related issues, anger, coping with life changes, and LGBT-related matters. Additional focuses include attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, control issues, dissociation, and substance use concerns.
She also addresses specific struggles such as guilt and shame, family problems, and first responder stress. Ashley uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. She draws on client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral ideas, acceptance-focused practices, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when helpful.
Sessions often include practical tools for emotion regulation, coping skills, and clearer communication. People can expect a warm, nonjudgmental tone and help setting realistic goals. Ashley emphasizes small, steady steps and developing coping strategies that fit each person’s life.
She works with clients in Alabama and with international clients in English, using several online formats to connect.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them and choosing actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, stress, and meaning-making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of relating and connection formed early in life and helps people improve trust, boundaries, and communication in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to use. This collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time to better match what is helping and what is not.
Online therapy offers options that fit different needs and lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving when in-person visits are not practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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