About Ashley
Ashley Becker is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Minnesota. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a calm, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Ashley aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or worn down by life.
She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has led group therapy for many years. That background gives her experience with mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, substance use concerns, obsessive thoughts, and serious persistent mental illness.
Background and approach
She uses that practical experience to help people find what works in day-to-day life. Ashley favors a person-centered style. She focuses on each person’s goals, listens closely, and helps clients name small, manageable steps.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thinking and on skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage strong emotions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and mindfulness practices are part of her work when they fit a person's needs. She often combines motivational interviewing techniques to support change and to strengthen motivation for difficult steps.
Sessions may include problem-solving, skill practice, and space to reflect on progress. People who value a collaborative therapist and a straightforward approach may find her style helpful. Ashley makes room for humor and normal life moments as part of healing.
She works with adults in English and practices throughout Minnesota.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and choose meaningful actions despite them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by clarifying values and building committed steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and obsessive thinking through concrete exercises and homework. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help when feelings feel overwhelming and relationships are strained.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean mixing ACT, CBT, and DBT skills or focusing on one approach for a while, and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for flexible, on-the-go contact and brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English