About Ashley
Ashley Patton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while navigating life changes. Ashley listens without judgment and works alongside clients to set realistic goals.
Her style is practical and straightforward. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, trying small behavior changes, and practicing ways to manage strong emotions. She uses evidence-based approaches and adapts methods to fit what each person needs.
Background and approach
Ashley has supported people through depression, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship struggles. She also helps address sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and career stress. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, chronic illness and caregiver stress, body image, and ADHD.
In practice she blends cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior therapy skills, and motivational interviewing with solution-focused and trauma-focused methods. That mix lets her teach practical tools while also addressing deeper patterns that keep problems repeating. A typical first session looks at immediate needs and what a person hopes to change.
From there she and the client build a plan with clear steps and regular check-ins. Sessions are offered in English and provided through multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
How evidence-based approaches work online
CBT, or cognitive-behavioral therapy, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Sessions often teach specific skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that worsen anxiety, depression, sleep problems, or eating concerns.DBT, dialectical behavior therapy, focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. It is useful when strong emotions, anger, or relationship patterns cause frequent problems. Motivational interviewing helps people find personal reasons to change behaviors like substance use and builds readiness for new habits.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review your goals and preferences, try different tools, and adjust plans together. The process is flexible and collaborative so the work matches what actually helps you.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around real-life schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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