About Ashley
Ashley Kraskey uses a client-centered approach to make therapy feel straightforward and doable. She brings warmth and a relaxed style to sessions so people can speak honestly about stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting worries, and self-esteem concerns. Ashley has five years of experience as a clinician and holds an LPCC, which is the Minnesota licensed professional clinical counselor credential.
She aims to meet people where they are and value each step they take toward change.
Background and approach
Small steps and practical progress matter in her work. Sessions often mix deeper emotional processing with practical skill-building. Some meetings focus on making sense of painful memories and trauma.
Other sessions concentrate on everyday coping, communication, and parenting challenges. She also works with concerns related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and substance or eating-related issues. Ashley draws from narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people rewrite difficult stories and set achievable goals.
Ashley keeps language simple and direct in session. She invites questions about the process and encourages people to bring what feels most important that week. Her goal is to create a dependable, approachable space for steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. In online sessions this means the therapist reflects what matters to the client and helps them name feelings and goals, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and parenting stress.Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process painful events and learn ways to manage intense emotions. In virtual sessions the therapist guides paced processing and teaches grounding and coping skills that can be practiced between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That can mean shifting between deeper processing and short-term skill building as needs change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when lower bandwidth or less screen time is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style moments, or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care when in-person visits aren’t possible.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English