About Ashley
Ashley Foster is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical skills people can use right away when stress, anxiety, depression, or substance use make daily life harder. Ashley writes plainly and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable.
Her work centers on skill building and emotional regulation. She helps people learn mindfulness, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.
Background and approach
Sessions break goals into small, doable steps so progress feels realistic and steady rather than overwhelming. Ashley often supports people coping with trauma, abuse, and challenges around self-esteem and emptiness. She also addresses relationship patterns such as codependency, attachment concerns, and commitment or control issues.
When substance use is part of the problem, she integrates practical strategies to reduce harm and increase coping options. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Clients set goals together and then work step-by-step toward them.
She emphasizes validation and nonjudgmental listening while teaching concrete tools people can practice between sessions. Therapy with Ashley can include short-term skills work or longer-term exploration of recurring patterns. Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress while building a stronger sense of self and healthier ways of handling emotions and relationships.
Evidence-Based Skills Delivered Online
Dialectical behavioral skills focus on teaching concrete techniques for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. These skills help when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships keep repeating painful patterns.Mindfulness techniques train present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity to strong feelings. Practicing these skills can make everyday stress and anxiety easier to notice and manage before they escalate.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to identify goals and try techniques that fit personal needs and preferences. Adjustments are made as progress and feedback clarify what helps most.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when a lower bandwidth option is needed, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing skill reminders. These formats make it possible to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days when leaving the house is difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English