About Ashley
Dr. Ashley Thomas offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and relationship strains. She helps clients set clear goals and take small steps toward feeling steadier.
Her style balances gentle encouragement with straightforward tools so people can notice real progress. Thomas is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, with nine years in the mental health field. She has experience in a residential substance use and mental health program and holds graduate degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a PhD in Developmental Psychology.
How Ashley works
In sessions she focuses on what each person wants to achieve and adapts the plan as needs change. She offers skill-based strategies for coping, mood management, and communication. When clients need a reminder or a nudge she steps in to keep momentum going.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including self-esteem, addictions, bipolar and depressive episodes, ADHD, career stress, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues such as body image, codependency, blended family stress, and substance-related problems. Therapy draws on client-centered methods plus structured approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, emotion-focused practices, and mindfulness.
Sessions aim to build practical habits, improve coping skills, and strengthen emotional awareness over time.
Ashley lists 7 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 one is listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches fit online care
Client-centered work emphasizes listening and following each person's goals. In practice this looks like the therapist asking what matters most, reflecting back what she hears, and adjusting plans to match a client's priorities. It helps when someone wants a strengths-based, collaborative process.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical steps that change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Clients learn short exercises and experiments to test out new habits, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for regulating emotion and handling conflict, with coaching on distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adapt as things change. Decisions about techniques are made together so the plan fits the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people talk face to face when discussion and visual cues help. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life demands.
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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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