About Ashley
Ashley Longabaugh-Cantos is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with six years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or big life transitions. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and approachable so parents can fit it into busy days.
Ashley draws on straightforward, evidence-informed methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns and make small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are warm and direct, with a focus on realistic steps rather than long explanations. She has worked with people affected by adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, and caregiver stress. Ashley also supports those facing chronic illness, body image struggles, eating-related issues, and challenges tied to separation or domestic violence.
Her background includes experience helping people who feel stuck or empty and those rebuilding after major life events. Ashley values a practical, collaborative style. She listens first, helps identify what matters most, and then tries short, focused strategies that match a person’s day-to-day life.
Humor and a down-to-earth tone often help ease hard conversations. People meet Ashley through video, phone, chat, or messaging. She speaks English and practices in Florida as an LMHC.
The goal is steady progress through small, consistent steps rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and uses small experiments to test new ways of responding, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.Ashley treats the choice of approach as a team effort. She listens to what matters most, explains different methods in plain terms, and tries options together to find what fits a person’s goals and daily routine. That collaborative process helps shape sessions that feel useful and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so people can pick what matches their schedule and comfort. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, chat allows short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain steady work on anxiety and stress while juggling family and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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