About Ashley
Ashley Whitley is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps so parents and adults can start making changes right away.
Background and approach
She offers short-term goals and strategies to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and improve relationships. Sessions often focus on what’s working now and small shifts that build confidence.
Ashley uses approaches that aim to create clearer thinking and better day-to-day habits. With four years of clinical experience, Ashley draws on techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy.
She uses CBT tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. Solution-focused work highlights strengths and builds on what already helps the person get through hard moments.
Ashley works with concerns such as parenting strain, relationship conflict, mood challenges, grief, trauma and addiction-related issues. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and challenges common to veterans and armed forces members.
She will listen and help you set realistic next steps. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in Texas and internationally.
The first steps are a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a time that fits your life. Ashley aims to make therapy feel useful and doable for busy people.
How Ashley’s approaches work online
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on identifying small, practical steps that lead to noticeable change. It asks what already helps you and builds on those strengths to reach short-term goals. This approach suits people who want clear, doable actions to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and test unhelpful thoughts and then try different behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many mood-related concerns by breaking problems into manageable pieces.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest a mix of techniques that fit those aims. Together they adjust the plan as progress is made so sessions stay relevant and focused on measurable change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations when travel is hard. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, between-session check-ins, or people who prefer typing to talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and match the format to daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English