About Ashley
Ashley Sorenson is a Michigan-licensed social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to make day-to-day life feel more manageable. She frames clients as experts in their own stories and looks for strengths to build on together.
Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. She helps people talk through relationship strain, mood concerns like depression and bipolar patterns, and trouble sleeping or panic attacks.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with grief, addiction, and the emotional impact of big life changes. Ashley pays attention to how shame, guilt, and body image affect choices and relationships. She works with people on communication skills and on coping tools for anger, isolation, and compassion fatigue.
For clients exploring non-monogamous relationships, she addresses communication and boundaries in a practical way. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that can be tried between meetings. She believes in building on what already works in a person's life and adjusting strategies when needed.
The tone is calm and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on usable skills. Ashley offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. She practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step get the process started.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Ashley uses practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. For anxiety and panic she emphasizes short-term coping tools such as breathing and grounding strategies and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. For mood and depression she works on behavioral activation - helping people reintroduce manageable activities that bring back routine and small rewards.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ashley reviews goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods over time. She helps clients decide which techniques fit their daily life and checks in on progress to change course when needed.
Online therapy with Ashley is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls work well for full sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a flexible check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, mood check-ins, or quick strategies between longer sessions. These options aim to make consistent care easier to schedule and keep therapy usable alongside daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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