About Yolanda
Yolanda "Leah" Ashton is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Kentucky. She brings 11 years of experience in the mental health and wellness field and aims to create a straightforward, supportive space for people who are feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Leah focuses on everyday struggles such as stress, anxiety, grief, and depression.
She also helps with ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career-related stress. Her work includes attention to family matters, parenting challenges, and issues that affect self-esteem and life purpose.
Background and approach
In sessions she keeps the conversation direct and respectful. Leah listens first and then helps people identify small, practical steps they can try between meetings. She uses approaches that emphasize the person’s goals and strengths rather than long lists of techniques.
She draws on client-centered care to make people feel heard, and on cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness and solution-focused thinking are used when people want tools for stress management and clear action plans.
Leah speaks English and Tagalog and works with adults on a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, eating and sleeping difficulties, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress. Her tone is encouraging, down-to-earth, and practical. She invites people to take small steps toward change and supports them along the way.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Leah commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage current challenges. Client-centered work means she focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities so goals come from the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and helps people try small changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to teach simple breathing and attention skills for stress and emotional regulation. These approaches are practical tools that can be practiced between sessions to build momentum and confidence.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leah will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice is revisited over time so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and step-by-step coaching possible between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy routines and maintain continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English, Tagalog