About Ausha
Ausha Whitehead uses a client-centered style to help people build motivation, confidence, and clearer goals. She is a licensed social worker with LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions. Her approach emphasizes respect, practical skills, and steady support for each person she sees.
She helps people cope with grief and loss and manage depression and anxiety. She also works with trauma and abuse, anger, and challenges around intimacy and relationships.
How Ausha works
Parenting concerns, self-esteem, and stress are common topics that she addresses in straightforward ways. Her practice draws on techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, emotionally-focused strategies, and mindfulness. These tools are used to build clearer thinking, steadier emotion regulation, and action that reflects personal values.
The room is collaborative: the therapist and client choose what fits best for the situation. Ausha has experience with additional concerns such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger Syndrome, chronic illness and pain, and substance-related problems. She also supports people dealing with end-of-life issues, intellectual disability, isolation, and career stress.
Sessions focus on concrete steps and realistic options. Plans are tailored to each person's life and goals. Her tone is compassionate and direct, aiming to make therapy understandable and doable.
Ausha lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Ausha works with
The areas below are the ones Ausha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes when someone wants clearer direction rather than only symptom relief. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then practicing new ways of thinking and acting. CBT is often used for depression, anxiety, and mood regulation.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, emotionally-focused techniques, mindfulness, or a mix fits best and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and keep care consistent when life gets busy.
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