About Ashley
Ashley Hutchens helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and trauma. She works with a wide range of concerns including addiction, parenting challenges, sleep and eating problems, intimacy issues, and career stress. Ashley is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of experience in community mental health in West Virginia.
Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
How Ashley works
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and the Gottman Method for relationship work when needed. Ashley emphasizes small, steady changes rather than big leaps. Sessions focus on clear goals and skills that can be used between meetings.
She encourages people to bring real-life situations into sessions to practice new ways of coping and communicating. Her background in social work shapes a problem-solving style that considers daily life, family roles, and community supports. She is experienced with complex cases that include co-occurring issues such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, or personality challenges.
Ashley aims to help clients build routines and strategies that improve mood, sleep, and functioning. People who prefer flexible contact can meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Conversations begin with a short questionnaire to match goals and plan the first steps toward change.
Ashley lists 9 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Many of Ashley's methods adapt well to remote sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to improve mood and daily functioning. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions, reducing impulsive behavior, and improving stress tolerance. These skills are often taught in short, practiceable steps that translate well to phone or messaging check-ins. The Gottman Method focuses on communication and interaction patterns in relationships and can guide couples or partners through structured exercises and new ways of talking.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then tailor techniques from CBT, DBT, or the Gottman Method as appropriate. This can mean trying a skill in session and adapting it for everyday situations.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls support face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and get ongoing support. These options help make therapy fit into busy schedules and different day-to-day routines.
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