About Ashley
Ashley Whitfield is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 11 years of experience. She works from Mississippi and brings practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Ashley speaks English and draws on years of work in schools, clinics, and community agencies.
She aims to help clients sort through everyday pressures and big transitions. Conversations are straightforward and focused on small, doable changes. Sessions often include skills people can try between meetings to reduce overwhelm and build steady routines.
Background and approach
Ashley uses approaches that emphasize values, present-moment choices, and changing unhelpful thinking. She also draws on client-centered ways of listening and practical problem-solving tools. These methods are applied to concerns like parenting strain, relationship trouble, grief, anger, and career stress.
Her background includes hands-on work with mood disorders, attention challenges, trauma, and issues tied to systemic disadvantage. That experience informs a practical focus on matching strategies to each person’s day-to-day reality. Ashley aims to help people find clearer priorities and more consistent coping skills.
In sessions she helps people identify small steps toward better balance. The work can include behavior changes, communication practice, and building routines that support emotional stability. Ashley welcomes questions about approach and fit during an initial match process.
How Ashley's approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward them. It helps when stress or anxiety keep you from living the life you want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce symptoms and change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, giving clients space to lead the conversation while the therapist supports understanding and self-directed growth.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Ashley will work with each person to find which methods fit their goals and preferences. That may mean trying a few tools and adjusting as progress is made, so clients shape the plan alongside the therapist.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging provide moment-to-moment flexibility and can make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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