About Ashley
Ashley Whitman welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start. She is a licensed social worker with ten years of experience and she offers straightforward, practical support for everyday struggles. Ashley focuses on problems like anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief, and stress.
She also helps people who are navigating career questions, intimacy concerns, ADHD, and major life changes. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to each person and to build doable steps forward.
How Ashley works
Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients try tools that fit their goals. Those tools can include mindful practices, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment to change.
Ashley holds LMSW and LISW credentials and practices in Michigan. She has spent a decade working with people on recovery, coping skills, and building resilience after difficult experiences. That background shapes a calm, problem-solving approach in sessions.
When someone reaches out, Ashley works together with them to set clear short-term goals and to track progress. She offers a mix of session types to suit different schedules and needs. The emphasis is practical - small steps that add up to real change.
Ashley lists 4 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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship, helping people explore what matters most and set personal goals. It is useful for many concerns, from stress to self-esteem. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; this method helps with anxiety, depression, and behavioral habits. Mindfulness therapy introduces simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment coping, which can aid with stress and trauma symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ashley collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She may blend techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made, so clients help shape what happens in sessions.
Online formats offer flexibility for different rhythms and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to touch base between sessions or to work through thoughts in writing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity over time.
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A practical next step
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