About Ashley
Ashley Spitzer is a licensed independent social worker who focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She brings 20 years of experience and a warm, laidback manner to sessions. Her approach is practical and straightforward.
She encourages clients to speak openly and to use therapy time for whatever feels most needed. In sessions she centers the client's immediate concerns and symptoms. She listens first, then tailors tools to fit each person's needs.
How Ashley works
Ashley uses a mix of approaches that include cognitive and emotion-focused strategies, mindfulness, and trauma work when appropriate. She explains things plainly and invites feedback so interventions can be adjusted. Ashley supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy issues, addiction, bipolar challenges, and parenting stress.
She also addresses body image, blended family concerns, caregiver strain, chronic pain or illness, and eating or sleeping difficulties. Her background includes work with grief, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Clients can expect a respectful and open atmosphere.
Ashley values consistency, empathy, and clear boundaries. She helps people set small, realistic steps and builds on what already works for them. She offers sessions in English and works with people in Ohio as well as international clients.
Her credential is OH LISW, which reflects her licensure as a clinical social worker in Ohio. Practical matters like scheduling and format are discussed at the start so therapy fits into each person’s life.
Ashley lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's 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 |
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Online support options
How Ashley Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while focusing on values and concrete action. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching practical ways to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then practices new ways of responding; this approach often helps with anxiety, sleeping or eating issues, and mood challenges. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that uses guided recall and bilateral stimulation to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related symptoms. Finding the right approach is a team effort. Ashley will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which methods to use and when to shift strategies. Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay consistent with sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text messages make short check-ins and ongoing coaching possible between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress and steady support.Start online instead of waiting
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