About Ashley
Dr. Ashley Mitich offers a practical, person-centered way of working that starts with listening. She is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 14 years of experience.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing life changes, grief, trauma, parenting strain, career questions, and challenges linked to attention differences. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, useful tools, and real-world steps to feel steadier between meetings. Dr. Mitich draws from Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how past bonds shape current relationships.
She uses the Gottman Method to address communication and repeating patterns that cause conflict. Narrative Therapy is part of her work too, helping people reframe stories that hold them back. She brings practical help for specialized concerns such as blended family problems, codependency, intimacy and kink-related topics, cancer-related stress, fatherhood issues, and coping after disasters.
Her work also covers sleep challenges, commitment worries, and control or dependency patterns. People who choose her can expect direct conversation, clear strategies, and compassion. Her style favors short-term goals alongside deeper exploration when it helps.
The focus is on making daily life more manageable and relationships more connected.
Attachment and Narrative Approaches for Online Work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships. It looks at patterns of closeness and distance and helps people notice and shift those patterns to feel more supported in relationships. The Gottman Method centers on communication habits and recurring arguments. It breaks down how couples interact and teaches practical skills to reduce conflict and rebuild connection. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from unhelpful stories they tell about their lives. By re-authoring those stories, people can try new behaviors and see different possibilities for their relationships and goals. Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your concerns and goals, then collaborate with you to choose which methods fit best. This is a shared process and the plan can change as needs evolve. Online sessions provide practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera is preferable. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when scheduling around work and family demands.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English