About Ashley
Ashley McGarity is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who works with adults facing anxiety and related struggles. She writes simply and directly with people who want clear tools to manage worry, stress, and the daily pull of emotions. Her style is practical and focused on building habits that fit each person’s life.
Ashley draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused approaches to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Sessions center on skill building, clearer communication, and increased self-understanding. She pays attention to how past experiences show up now.
That often means looking at patterns that lead to avoidance, anger, or low self-worth, and then practicing small changes that feel doable. Ashley encourages clients to name values and to move toward goals that matter to them. Her practice includes work on stress, addiction-related concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, and issues around self-esteem and identity.
She also helps people with parenting stress, career shifts, and other life transitions. The approach is collaborative - goals and strategies are chosen together. Ashley has five years of clinical experience and works from Florida.
She conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats. People who prefer an active, skills-focused therapist who also pays attention to relationships may find her approach a good fit.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses. Online sessions can use discussion and exercises to identify these patterns and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person's own goals and perspective, with the therapist offering understanding and acceptance while the client leads the pace and focus. This works well online for people who want a nonjudgmental space to talk through concerns and make choices.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In an online setting CBT often includes homework, brief skill practice between sessions, and structured tools that are easy to review over video or text.
Finding the right approach is part of the collaboration. The therapist will discuss the options, listen to goals and preferences, and agree on an approach or a mix of approaches that fits the client's needs. This gives room to adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online work offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer written check-ins, want quick skill prompts, or need support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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