About Ashley
Ashley Curtis is a Kentucky-based therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, intimacy concerns, and career pressure. She holds the LPCC credential, which is noted here to show her licensure in Kentucky. She focuses on straightforward, practical steps people can use right away.
Sessions are calm and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps people name patterns that cause pain. Conversations move toward small experiments and changes that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Progress is measured in real moments people notice outside the office. Ashley uses several research-supported methods to shape sessions. She pulls from cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take meaningful action. Attachment-based ideas are used when past relationships affect current trust and closeness. Her style is collaborative and warm.
She offers direct coaching on communication and coping skills when needed. For trauma work, she balances pacing with attention to safety and grounding. Ashley has about eight years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns.
She supports people from varied backgrounds and centers each person’s story in planning treatment. The goal is steadier emotions, clearer choices, and kinder self-talk.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making choices that align with personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of responding, which often reduces anxiety and improves mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape trust and closeness today and can help when relationship or intimacy issues cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and as new challenges emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or support when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English