About Ashley
Ashley Craige uses a person-centered approach to guide people through change. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Alabama with ten years of experience. Ashley focuses on practical steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns.
She writes plainly and aims to make sessions feel approachable and useful. Ashley draws on methods from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses motivational interviewing to support people who are ready to change substance use or other habits. Mindfulness techniques are offered to reduce reactivity and build calm in day-to-day life. Her background includes work in outpatient, school-based, and residential settings, and she has provided training for other clinicians.
Ashley has experience supporting people dealing with workplace strain, self-esteem struggles, and family conflict. She also focuses on women’s issues and drug and alcohol addiction. In sessions she treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
She helps people set small goals, try new coping skills, and check what works. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Practical matters are discussed openly, including how therapy fits into a weekly routine.
Ashley supports people who want to improve relationships, handle grief, manage stress, or move toward healthier habits.
Online approaches that support real change
Ashley uses client-centered therapy to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person sets the goals. This approach helps people clarify what matters to them and makes sessions focused on practical next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into small, manageable parts that can be practiced between sessions.
The therapist treats finding the right approach as a team effort. Together the client and therapist review goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. That collaborative process helps tailor work to what the person actually needs and prefers.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular sessions easier to keep. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English