About Ashley
Ashley Thompkins is a California licensed clinical social worker with eight years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with focus and motivation. She aims to make it easier to talk about hard things and to take the first steps toward change.
She creates an open, nonjudgmental space where people can share thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than jargon.
Background and approach
The goal is to build skills you can use between meetings. Ashley supports those coping with trauma and abuse and helps people work through low self-esteem, body image concerns, and problems with concentration or memory. She also addresses relationship stress such as communication problems, divorce and separation, blended family issues, and attachment or abandonment concerns.
Additionally she works with caregiver stress, guilt and shame, forgiveness, infidelity, and questions about life purpose. Her practice includes attention to multicultural concerns and issues faced by veterans and members of the armed forces. Sessions are offered in English and are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The counselor uses an evidence-based approach and collaborates with each person to find practical strategies that fit their life.
Evidence-based approaches and online sessions
Two evidence-based therapeutic techniques often used are cognitive strategies and trauma-informed work. Cognitive strategies involve identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing different ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Trauma-informed work focuses on creating safety in sessions and pacing discussion of painful experiences to help people regain control and reduce distress.Another useful approach is skills-based coaching for attention and motivation concerns. This involves setting small, manageable goals, breaking tasks into steps, and building routines that improve focus and day-to-day functioning. These techniques are practical and aimed at making life feel more manageable between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may include trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and short reflections. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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