About Ashley
Ashley Maag is a licensed counselor in Tennessee who focuses on helping people navigate hard moments. She brings a calm, straightforward approach and listens without judgment. Her style aims to make it easier to talk about sensitive topics and to find practical next steps.
Ashley has four years of professional experience working with concerns such as addiction, trauma and abuse, anxiety, and depression. She also helps people facing career stress, grief, parenting pressures, and challenges related to ADHD and bipolar disorder.
How Ashley works
She offers support around relationship issues, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. In sessions she creates an open, nonjudgmental space for people to share thoughts and feelings. She combines client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
Motivational interviewing and mindfulness techniques are available when they fit a person’s goals. Ashley works with each person to set clear, realistic goals and to build skills that can be used between sessions. She focuses on small, manageable changes so progress feels achievable.
She also addresses complex situations like co-occurring conditions, family of origin issues, and caregiver stress. Her overall aim is to listen, teach, and empower. People who want straightforward guidance and a partner in problem solving may find her approach helpful.
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 few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC-MHSP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ashley frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. Those skills can help when feelings feel overwhelming or when relationships create repeated conflict.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Ashley discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts techniques based on what is working. Together they set clear, realistic steps so therapy matches real-life needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets a person use face-to-face interaction, phone can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions and practice skills between meetings.
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