About Ashley
Ashley Kraskey is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, depression, trauma, and parenting strain. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical so clients can use what they learn right away.
Ashley keeps the therapy space relaxed and inviting. That makes it easier for people to show up as they are and talk about hard things.
Background and approach
Some meetings focus on deeper processing of traumatic events. Other sessions concentrate on daily skills and small changes that add up over time. She uses a mix of approaches that match each person’s goals.
Conversations center on the client’s own story, on motivation for change, and on finding simple strategies that move life forward. The approach is collaborative and paced to what feels doable in the moment. Ashley has worked with a range of concerns beyond anxiety, including self-esteem, parenting stress, and trauma and abuse.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, body image, addiction-related problems, and family challenges. These topics often overlap, and sessions address the whole situation rather than a single label. Therapy with Ashley can be offered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She speaks English and practices in Minnesota. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Ashley often uses client-centered therapy, which puts the person’s experience first and focuses on listening and understanding. This approach helps when someone needs time to talk through feelings, build trust, and decide what changes matter most. Motivational interviewing is another method she uses to uncover a person’s own reasons for change and to strengthen their motivation. It can be useful for moving through ambivalence about steps like changing habits or seeking support.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She adapts methods based on what the person wants to focus on and checks in regularly to make sure the plan fits their needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice-only check-in is preferable. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when someone wants shorter, written reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try approaches that match current needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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