About Ashley
Ashley Maag is a licensed professional counselor with four years of experience based in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, or big life changes. Ashley aims to create a calm space where people can talk freely and be heard without judgment.
She centers conversations on what each person needs. Sessions often begin with listening to the immediate concern, then building simple, concrete goals to work toward.
Background and approach
Techniques include practical skill-building, mindfulness exercises, and exploring how past experiences affect current choices. Ashley draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping strategies. She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person's values and priorities.
Dialectical behavior therapy strategies and motivational interviewing are offered when people need skills for emotion regulation or to change behaviors like substance use. Her work covers many concerns, including relationship strain, parenting stress, career questions, ADHD, chronic illness adjustment, and self-esteem.
She pays attention to patterns that come from family of origin, abandonment, or attachment wounds and helps people name and shift those patterns. Ashley supports people who want practical change as well as those seeking understanding. She listens, teaches skills, and helps create steps people can use between sessions.
Her approach is steady, straightforward, and focused on what helps now.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Ashley often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different, more useful ways of thinking and acting. CBT is hands-on and works well for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills to change reactions.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when behavior changes are needed. Client-centered therapy guides the conversation so goals reflect each person's values and priorities, keeping work collaborative and person-led.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Ashley will listen to concerns, review goals, and try methods that match what a person needs. She checks in over time and adjusts techniques based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video works well for deeper conversation and teaching skills visually. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Text and chat let people touch base between sessions or use messaging when schedules are tight. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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