About Ashley
Ashley McMaster is a licensed independent social worker who brings 20 years of experience to sessions. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief and loss, and navigate depression and relationship concerns. Ashley speaks plainly and offers steady support for people who want practical changes in daily life.
Ashley adapts conversations and plans to match each person's needs. She aims for straightforward goals that feel achievable.
How Ashley works
Sessions often focus on skills for mood, sleep, and handling big life changes rather than abstract theories. Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods. That means work might include looking at thoughts and behavior patterns, building awareness through mindfulness, and clarifying values to guide choices.
She also uses emotion-focused conversation when relationship or intimacy issues come up. Clients with addiction, compassion fatigue, parenting strain, or chronic health concerns can find targeted support. Ashley also addresses concerns like ADHD, bipolar symptoms, body image, and aging-related stress when those topics affect everyday functioning.
She offers straightforward coaching around communication problems, commitment or control issues, and blended family or adoption-related struggles. The goal is to leave sessions with usable steps to try between meetings and a clearer sense of what matters. Ashley practices in Ohio and works with people in English.
Her style is respectful and practical, aimed at helping people move toward a more manageable, meaningful life.
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
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Ashley commonly draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to guide online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and try new responses; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping skills. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and building small, meaningful actions even when feelings are difficult; that approach can be useful for grief, life changes, and ongoing stress.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Ashley will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you will test what works, adjust strategies, and set practical steps to use between visits so progress carries into everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be helpful for quick check-ins, short reflections, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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A practical next step
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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