About NaaDzama
NaaDzama Ashby is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and workplace strain. She practices in Tennessee and focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aimed at people who want clear direction and steady support.
Ashby centers sessions on each person's background and identity. She pays attention to cultural factors and how they affect emotions and behavior.
Background and approach
Clients who feel isolated, ashamed, or stuck often work on rebuilding self-love and improving communication skills. She also helps people navigate career and life transitions. That includes addressing career stress, finding purpose, and working through blended family or family conflict concerns.
Ashby supports those coping with caregiving burdens, body image worries, and the fallout of immigration or discrimination experiences. Her methods draw from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to teach coping skills and build resilience. Sessions focus on concrete tools - problem-solving, managing overwhelming feelings, and changing unhelpful patterns.
Work on forgiveness, guilt, and control issues is practical and paced to what each person can handle. NaaDzama has three years of clinical experience as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She offers sessions in English and meets people by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a short questionnaire and scheduling step connect people with her practice.
Approaches that guide online sessions
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. One common approach teaches practical coping and emotion-management strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress. It helps people notice unhelpful reactions and try different ways of responding.Another approach emphasizes improving communication and relationships. This work helps with family problems, blended family issues, and repair after conflict by practicing clear requests and boundary-setting. A third focus is trauma-informed care that helps people process painful experiences at a pace they can tolerate and build safety in daily routines.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match techniques to goals, needs, and personal comfort. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people speak face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit brief check-ins or tight schedules. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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