About Ashley
Ashley Brummett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of counseling experience and a longer career in social work. She practices from Kentucky and brings practical, down-to-earth support to people facing hard moments. Ashley aims to build a trusting partnership and meet each person where they are.
Before focusing on counseling, Ashley worked across many care settings including hospice and palliative care, inpatient hospitals, outpatient mental health clinics, long-term care, dialysis clinics, and services for adults with cognitive disabilities.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped her ability to help with grief, caregiver stress, and adjustment to life changes. She uses clear, compassionate conversation rather than jargon. Sessions tend to be warm and direct, with an emphasis on honest communication and practical next steps.
Faith can be included when it matters to the person, and will be set aside when it does not. Ashley draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally-focused ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to tailor support. She often helps people with anxiety, depression, stress, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and self-esteem struggles.
People also come to her for help with aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness and pain, caregiver strain, end-of-life planning, blended family matters, and panic or seasonal mood changes. Her goal is steady, useful progress so people feel better equipped to manage life between sessions.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust so the person sets the pace and goals. It helps when someone needs understanding and a place to talk through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and patterns that interfere with daily life.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotions behind relationship and intimacy struggles and helps people identify and change harmful interaction patterns. It can help with closeness and communication issues.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they choose or blend methods that fit the problem and the person’s style.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues, phone can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited, chat and text suit shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options help people keep regular sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English