About Ashley
Ashley Bashaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oklahoma with eight years working directly as a counselor. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Her tone is warm and direct, and she aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Ashley uses straightforward, goal-focused conversations to help people identify what feels stuck and what might change. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on solution-focused techniques to set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing appears in her work when people want help finding internal reasons to change. She also brings trauma-informed attention to experiences of abuse and domestic violence, helping people process what happened and build safer patterns. When anger, addictions, or control issues show up, she looks for practical strategies a person can try between sessions.
Career strain, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue are addressed with concrete coping skills and planning. Ashley describes her style as open-minded, warm, and nonjudgmental. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect and sensitivity.
Conversations are tailored to a person’s needs rather than following a fixed script. Sessions can include longer talks or short check-ins, depending on what someone needs that week. Ashley helps people set realistic steps and tracks progress together so work in therapy feels useful and clear.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ashley uses cognitive-behavioral approaches to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This work is practical and problem focused, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood shifts.She also uses solution-focused techniques that concentrate on small, specific goals. These methods help people build forward momentum by identifying what works and repeating it. When motivation is low, motivational interviewing helps uncover personal reasons to make change and supports gradual steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashley collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in about what’s working and adjusts plans so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls allow deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can provide quick check-ins or brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English