About Ashley
Ashley Murphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She brings 22 years of experience helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She listens with a person-centered approach and guides clients toward clearer thinking and practical steps.
She uses straightforward, goal-focused methods to help people manage panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, impulsivity, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. She also supports parents facing blended family issues, fatherhood concerns, domestic violence effects, and other family problems.
Background and approach
Sessions often include work on self-esteem, anger, and coping with life changes. Ashley draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She brings mindfulness practices to help people calm racing thoughts and stay present during stressful moments.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies help clients set small, achievable goals and track progress. Her background includes counseling work in community settings, telehealth, and schools. She has experience addressing abandonment issues, self-harm thoughts, obsessions and compulsions, and panic disorder.
Her practical style aims to make therapy feel useful from the first sessions. Ashley describes the client as the expert in their life and offers guidance rather than directives. She helps people find clearer perspectives, heal from past wounds, and build skills for daily life.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through several online formats.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what they hear, and helps the client make choices that fit their life. This approach is helpful for people coping with anxiety, grief, or family transition because it centers the client's experience and priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach simple tools for spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. This approach can be useful for panic attacks, obsessive thinking, and mood changes because it breaks problems into concrete steps to practice between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy adds short exercises to increase awareness of present moment experience and reduce reactivity. These practices can help when stress and racing thoughts make it hard to focus or sleep.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting over time as progress is tracked. Clients help set goals and choose which tools feel most useful.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps keep a thread of support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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