About Ashley
Ashley Lawrence welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by relationships, loss, trauma, mood changes, or major life transitions. She speaks plainly and listens closely so parents and caregivers can explain what is hardest right now. Ashley emphasizes steady, practical steps you can try between sessions.
Ashley holds an OH LPCC, which is the Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credential. She brings 17 years of professional experience to each session. That background includes work with depression, grief, anger, bipolar mood concerns, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people notice patterns in thoughts and behavior, practice new ways of coping, and manage intense emotions. When trauma is part of the story she uses approaches aimed at reducing distress from painful memories.
Ashley also supports those dealing with family and parenting stress, blended family issues, caregiver burden, and the effects of chronic illness or aging. She pays attention to communication breakdowns, codependency, and problems with commitment or control. Practical tools are paired with acceptance and respect for each person's strengths.
Ashley helps clients set small, manageable goals and checks progress along the way. If you want a straightforward therapist who values collaboration, she focuses on what you need now and how to get there.
Therapy Approaches and How They Work Online
Ashley often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping the client guide the pace of change. This approach helps people feel heard and to build on their own strengths.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to spot unhelpful thought patterns and test small behavioral changes that reduce stress and improve mood. CBT is practical and works well for depression, anxiety, and coping with life changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when emotion regulation and intense reactions are a concern. DBT offers concrete tools for grounding, managing strong feelings, and improving communication.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ashley collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let you do a full session face-to-face; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or being on camera is a problem; live chat or text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter contact fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English