About Ashley
Ashley Hackett is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with relationship and family struggles, trauma and grief, parenting challenges, career questions, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. Her approach puts the client's experience first and values practical steps that fit everyday life.
Ashley listens for strengths and resources in each person's story. She believes people know their situation best and that therapy should build on what already works.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, skills to manage strong emotions, and ways to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She often uses client-centered methods to create a respectful and nonjudgmental space. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify and shift thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or mood swings.
Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed. Narrative and solution-focused ideas are woven into work to help people clarify values, rewrite unhelpful life stories, and move toward concrete next steps. Many clients leave sessions with short practice tasks they can try between meetings to notice small changes.
Ashley draws on 18 years of professional experience as a counselor. She offers sessions in English and sees people located in Georgia. Her style is direct, warm, and practical, aimed at helping people find relief and clearer ways forward.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns in a nonjudgmental way. Online sessions use that same collaborative stance to identify what matters most and set priorities for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In remote work this often looks like reviewing thought patterns together, assigning brief exercises to try between sessions, and then discussing results by video or message.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. From there she suggests techniques to try and adjusts the plan as progress and needs become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different lifestyles. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can keep momentum between sessions and make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and practice new skills in real time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English