About Ashley
Ashley Simos is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with eight years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, and depression. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Her style is straightforward and warm, using gentle humor and clear feedback to keep work moving forward.
She often helps people who look fine on the outside but feel overwhelmed inside.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what keeps a person stuck and finding small, doable changes that reduce distress. Ashley emphasizes honesty and a nonjudgmental stance so people can speak freely about setbacks and successes. Ashley uses a collaborative approach.
She listens closely, offers thoughtful challenges, and helps clients try new skills between sessions. That hands-on focus turns insights into real behavior change and better emotional control. Common topics include panic and racing thoughts, compulsive habits, codependency, communication struggles, and questions about life purpose.
She also supports people working on forgiveness, guilt and shame, and smoking or vaping cessation. Work can include short-term goals or longer exploration depending on a person’s needs. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy more flexible.
People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions to fit their life. Ashley helps clients set clear, achievable steps and checks progress along the way.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Ashley draws on well-established therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. One approach helps people notice and reframe racing thoughts that fuel panic and anxiety, teaching concrete strategies to slow the mind and reduce panic symptoms. Another approach emphasizes behavior change through small, intentional actions to break compulsive patterns like substance use or smoking and build healthier routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley treats therapy as a collaborative process and will discuss different methods to find what matches a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts strategies as progress is made and as life circumstances change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exploration, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging are useful for short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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