About Ashley
Ashley Schroeder is a Licensed Professional Counselor working in South Carolina with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, motivation, and relationship concerns. Ashley aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and straightforward for people who are unsure where to start.
She builds sessions around an open, nonjudgmental tone so clients can speak freely about hard emotions. Conversations cover practical ways to cope with anxiety, manage anger, and navigate life changes.
Background and approach
She helps people break big problems into small, doable steps and track progress between sessions. Ashley uses approaches that center the person's experience and skills-based tools. She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced choices. For relationship concerns she uses Emotionally-Focused ideas and elements of the Gottman Method to improve communication and repair connection. Motivational Interviewing is added when people need help finding the will to change addictive or stuck behaviors.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People in South Carolina can expect practical, down-to-earth support focused on realistic goals. Taking a first step can feel hard - Ashley aims to make it easier to keep going.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help people name their feelings and make sense of them. This approach is useful when someone needs support sorting through emotions and deciding what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different responses. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress when concrete skills and behavior changes are the goal.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy emphasizes understanding emotions inside relationships and improving how people connect. It can help with communication problems, attachment concerns, and repairing closeness in partnerships.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial expressions and hold a longer session. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or movement is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and flexible scheduling simpler. These options make it possible to work on stress, relationships, motivation, and coping skills without traveling to an office.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English