About Ashley
Ashley Longabaugh-Cantos is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with six years of experience. She greets clients with warmth and plain talk, encouraging the first step toward support. Ashley aims to make reaching out feel doable for busy, worried parents and individuals.
Ashley focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes. She also pays attention to adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family challenges, and body image worries.
How Ashley works
Chronic illness, caregiver stress, codependency, and eating or food-related issues are among other areas she addresses. Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational, with an eye toward small, manageable steps people can try between meetings.
Humor and everyday language are part of how she eases difficult conversations. Ashley draws on experience with people from challenging situations and life transitions. She understands the strain of big changes and the need to re-find purpose and direction.
She creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can be heard and build skills at their own pace. Outside of sessions she enjoys animals and occasionally has a furry friend appear during meetings. Her style is supportive and down-to-earth, aiming to help people feel steadier and more able to handle what comes next.
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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
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ashley uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that fit their values. This approach can help with anxiety, stress, and finding direction during life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors that reduce symptoms over time. CBT often helps with low mood, worry, and problems with self-esteem by teaching practical skills people can practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to pick strategies that match needs, goals, and preferences, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts when typing feels easiest. These options make it simpler to find a rhythm that fits a busy life.
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