About Ashley
Dr. Ashley Mitich uses attachment-focused work as a starting point for therapy. She connects how early bonds shape current patterns to practical steps people can try now.
Ashley is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, with 14 years of experience and a calm, straightforward approach. She helps people facing stress and anxiety and those coping with depression. She also talks through relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem challenges.
Sessions often include looking at communication habits and concrete ways to change them.
How Ashley works
Ashley draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to notice how connection needs affect behavior. She uses the Gottman Method to address communication and recurring fights. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe stories they tell about themselves and their relationships.
Her work covers a wide range of life concerns. That includes parenting strain, blended family questions, career decisions, and grief after loss. She also addresses more specific topics such as ADHD, trauma and abuse, cancer-related stress, codependency, and intimacy within BDSM and alternative sex culture.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps people can use between meetings. She encourages practical experiments in everyday life and checks what changes actually help. The tone is direct but supportive, aimed at creating steady progress over time.
Ashley lists 3 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Using Attachment and Relationship Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotions. Online sessions can help someone notice those patterns and practice different ways of relating in daily life. The Gottman Method teaches concrete communication tools and ways to manage conflict; it translates well to video work where partners or individuals can try new skills in session and get direct feedback. Narrative Therapy focuses on the stories people tell about themselves and allows people to test alternative narratives and choices between sessions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which approaches to try first. Together they will adjust the plan based on what feels useful and what changes show up in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and practicing interaction skills, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins or coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting, or medical appointments and let people use the format that best supports continued progress.
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