About Ashley
Ashley Murphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She brings 22 years of experience to therapy and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and family-related struggles. She uses plain, direct talk and practical tools so parents and adults can start making changes right away.
Ashley prefers a client-centered approach that treats each person as the expert on their life. She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Ashley works
Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies are part of her toolbox for building coping skills and setting achievable goals. She has worked in community settings, schools, and through telehealth, and she received School Mental Health Counselor of the Year in 2021. That background gives her experience with school-related stress, blended family issues, and fatherhood concerns.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, domestic violence, abandonment, and post-traumatic stress. Ashley helps people who struggle with impulsivity, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic attacks, self-harm, and low self-esteem. She also offers coaching-style support for life transitions and parenting strain.
Her sessions aim to be practical, focused, and tailored to each person’s needs. Therapy with Ashley usually involves setting clear goals, learning hands-on strategies, and tracking small steps forward. She works in English and provides video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Ashley lists 6 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
How Ashley’s approaches translate to online therapy
Ashley uses client-centered therapy to create a collaborative space online where the person’s goals lead the work. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people name what matters most to them. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify thought patterns and test new behaviors. CBT online can help with anxiety, panic, depression, and obsessive-compulsive patterns by practicing skills between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashley will work together with each person to choose and adapt methods that match their needs and goals. Sessions often combine short-term problem solving with skills practice and follow-up between meetings when useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for fuller conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging suit brief coaching-style support, written exercises, or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options make therapy more flexible for different schedules and daily routines.
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