About Ashley
Ashley Karstunen welcomes people who feel stuck, anxious, or exhausted by life’s pressures. He offers calm, steady support and practical ways to manage stress and anxiety. Conversations are straightforward and paced to suit each person.
Sessions aim to help people find clearer choices and small steps forward. Ashley brings six years of clinical experience and works from a range of therapeutic ideas. He uses attachment-based thinking to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
He also draws on client-centred principles to follow each person’s pace and priorities while using cognitive behavioural strategies for practical skills and habits. His work often focuses on anxiety, stress, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, career questions and coping with life changes.
He also supports people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and a wide set of additional issues such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, and obsessions or compulsions. Ashley adapts sessions to individual needs using mindfulness, reflective questions, and somatic awareness exercises when helpful. Sessions mix talking, reflective homework, and simple behavioural experiments to test new ways of coping.
He explains options clearly and helps people choose what feels most useful. People who prefer an empathic, exploratory style alongside practical tools often find this approach helpful. Ashley works in Australia and provides sessions in English.
He holds PACFA as his listed credential.
Remote approaches that blend depth and practical skills
Ashley often uses attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationships influence current responses. This approach helps people see patterns in close relationships and try different ways of relating. He also uses client-centred therapy which focuses on listening closely and following the person's pace; it suits people who need a supportive space to work things out. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours, which can be useful for anxiety, compulsions and mood concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then test methods that fit those aims. The process is collaborative - adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow live conversation and visual connection, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or you need a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, reflective notes or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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