About Myhosi
Myhosi "Josie" Ashton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and bipolar-related concerns. She also supports work around forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, and building self-love. Josie practices in Florida and offers services in English and Spanish.
Josie approaches therapy with steady compassion and practical focus. She talks with clients about how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make emotions easier to understand and manage, and to help people set clearer boundaries and find hope. Her background includes work in community mental health, victim advocacy, and correctional mental health services. That experience gives her familiarity with crisis situations, grief, and complex family dynamics.
She uses a blend of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to meet each person's needs. Therapy with Josie tends to combine skills practice and reflective conversation. Clients may learn emotional regulation tools, mindful strategies, and ways to reframe unhelpful thoughts.
The focus is on practical steps that can be used between sessions. Josie encourages a respectful, culturally aware space where people can process pain and rebuild self-worth. She describes therapy as a collaborative process that adapts to a person’s goals and pace.
Therapeutic tools and online options for managing anxiety and trauma
Many of her approaches are practical and skill-based. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thought patterns that worsen anxiety or depression. It teaches strategies to test unhelpful beliefs and try new behaviors that reduce distress.Trauma-focused techniques include gentle ways to revisit difficult memories while learning skills to manage intense emotions. Mindfulness and emotional regulation exercises help slow down overwhelming reactions and build steady coping tools for stress and relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means adjusting pace, mixing skills practice with reflective talk, and checking in about what is helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good short-term check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates or work through brief concerns between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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