About Ashley
Ashley Donahue is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 12 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety and stress and help people cope with life changes. Ashley speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
She uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts, try small behavior changes, and build routines that reduce distress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete tools for sleeping, managing anger, and improving self-esteem. The work connects day-to-day choices to bigger goals in life. Ashley also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices when people need help with intense emotions, impulsivity, or relationship strain.
Motivational Interviewing can help clarify what matters most and support follow-through on changes. She blends these approaches to match a person’s situation and preferences. Her experience covers a broad range of concerns including anxiety, depression, parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and career worries.
Ashley also addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, and caregiving or aging concerns. She focuses on clear steps people can try between sessions. Therapy typically involves collaborative planning and skill practice.
New clients complete a short questionnaire to match with her and then schedule sessions in a format that fits their life. The emphasis is on useful, manageable strategies rather than jargon or long lectures.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, stress from life transitions, and motivation to make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and testing thoughts and then making small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It is commonly used for anxiety, sleep problems, and coping with depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, current challenges, and personal preferences. That can mean trying one technique for a few weeks, checking progress, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and teaching of skills. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to share updates, try short exercises, or get coaching between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum on practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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