About Ashley
Ashley Sorenson helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce distress. Ashley emphasizes each person's strengths and works alongside them to build clearer coping strategies for daily life.
With 15 years of experience and a Michigan LMSW (Licensed Master Social Worker), she brings steady, straightforward support to concerns like depression, bipolar mood challenges, and grief.
How Ashley works
She also helps people struggling with addictions, sleep problems, and career stress. Issues around self-esteem, body image, and feelings of emptiness are also within her focus. Ashley provides care for people navigating relationship difficulties, parenting pressures, communication problems, and non-monogamous relationship questions.
She addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and the persistent worry of panic or obsessive thoughts. Her work includes support for members of the LGBT community and people coping with seasonal mood shifts. Sessions aim to translate insight into doable action.
Conversations are practical and geared toward building routines, communication skills, and emotion management tools. Ashley encourages realistic goals and small experiments clients can try between sessions. People who prefer an organized, empathetic guide tend to do well with her approach.
She keeps language simple and steps clear so progress feels tangible. For those ready to try therapy, her background offers a steady foundation to navigate change.
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
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Evidence-based techniques for online care
Ashley works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at clear, actionable change. One common approach focuses on skill building to manage anxiety and mood swings through breathing, scheduling, and step-by-step behavioral experiments that reduce avoidance and increase a sense of control. Another approach emphasizes improving communication and problem solving for relationship and family stress by practicing new conversation patterns and setting realistic boundaries.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ashley will discuss goals, current challenges, and personal preferences to decide what methods to try first. She reviews progress together and adjusts plans so strategies match what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for full sessions and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, mood tracking, or when messaging fits a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other routines.
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