About Ashley
Ashley Donahue is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois. She focuses on practical, skills-based work to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She uses everyday language and clear steps so parents and busy adults can follow along.
Ashley draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and motivational interviewing when helpful.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize simple tools that people can use between meetings. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including family and parenting stress, ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy and relationship challenges, sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with bipolar symptoms. She also helps with attachment issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Ashley has 12 years of experience in counseling adults across diverse backgrounds. She aims to meet people where they are and tailor the pace and techniques to each person's goals. Expect a collaborative process that balances skill practice with attention to values and everyday functioning.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through online formats. The approach is straightforward and goal-oriented, with room to adapt as needs change.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Online sessions use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT encourages noticing unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and practicing actions that match personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and to test new ways of thinking and acting. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adapt techniques based on their goals, needs, and what feels manageable. Sessions combine explanation, practice, and real-life homework so people can try things between meetings and adjust as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and teaching skills, phone calls can be lower bandwidth, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief ongoing contact and reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep working on goals from wherever a person is located.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English