About Ashley
Ashley Brinkman is a licensed counselor in Minnesota who has practiced for six years as an LPCC. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or depression. She also supports those facing relationship concerns, intimacy struggles, and major life changes.
Her style is calm and straightforward. She talks with people respectfully and listens for what matters most. Conversations are shaped around each person’s goals and daily realities rather than a one-size plan.
Background and approach
Ashley often uses practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns and try small changes that can reduce worry and improve mood. She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take steps toward what matters to them despite difficult feelings.
She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, anger, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and issues tied to pregnancy and childbirth. Additional focus areas include blended family concerns, communication problems, obsessional symptoms and panic attacks. Ashley aims to make sessions useful and manageable.
She helps set realistic steps and checks in about what’s working. People can expect clear suggestions, practical coping ideas, and space to make sense of hard situations.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ashley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is useful for worries, panic, obsessive thinking, and moods by breaking problems into clearer steps.She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on identifying personal values and taking action toward them even when emotions are difficult. ACT can help with anxiety, low mood, and shifting how people relate to uncomfortable feelings.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Ashley will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide whether CBT, ACT, or a mix makes the most sense. She checks in as therapy progresses and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversational work and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins, flexible scheduling, and ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to get consistent support from a licensed professional without major travel or time changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English