About Ashley
Ashley Brinkman is a licensed professional clinical counselor with six years of experience in Minnesota. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship strain. Ashley speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for a worried parent or anyone seeking change.
Ashley helps people tackle specific problems like anger, work and career stress, and challenges tied to ADHD and bipolar conditions.
How Ashley works
She also supports those coping with trauma, abuse, intimacy concerns, and big life transitions. Conversations are tailored to the person in front of her rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth.
Sessions tend to focus on skills you can use day to day, clearer communication, and ways to handle intense emotions when they come up. She draws on methods that encourage practical thinking and values-based action to move forward.
Ashley pays attention to family dynamics and blended family issues and can help people work through communication problems, forgiveness, and relationship patterns that keep repeating. Areas of focus also include obsessions and compulsions, panic, post-traumatic stress, and women's issues related to pregnancy and childbirth. People meet Ashley to build better coping strategies, improve relationships, and find steadier ground during life changes.
She aims to be a steady presence as clients try new approaches and practice small changes between sessions.
Ashley lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Ashley works with
The areas below are the ones Ashley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Ashley uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a method that helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and mood concerns because it breaks problems into concrete skills and exercises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ashley collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adjusts pacing and tools based on what people find helpful, so therapy feels useful and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to access. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and working through skills together. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text are helpful for shorter check-ins and flexible scheduling. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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