About Ashley
Ashley Couch is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings seven years of clinical therapy experience to her practice in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her work also includes attention to parenting, career stress, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and LGBT issues.
Ashley describes a straightforward, compassionate style. She listens first and helps people notice what is working and what is getting in the way.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools and short exercises that clients can try between sessions. Sessions are meant to be understandable and down to earth. Her background includes work in schools, community settings, and in-home programs before providing clinical therapy both in person and online.
That variety shaped how she tailors plans to each person’s needs. She emphasizes strengths and helps people build small, doable changes. Ashley draws on several therapy approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, acceptance and commitment ideas, and emotionally focused methods.
She matches these methods to the person’s goals rather than using a single style for everyone. The practical side of her work includes coaching around coping skills, communication, and boundary-setting. She also supports people dealing with body image, eating concerns, chronic illness stress, caregiving strain, and addiction-related problems.
Sessions are offered in English and are based in Florida.
How Ashley’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small actions that match what matters to them. It supports coping with anxiety, life transitions, and persistent stress by teaching acceptance and committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with mood shifts. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and shifting emotional responses in relationships and close connections to improve communication and closeness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit. This collaborative process means strategies can be adjusted as progress is made and new needs arise.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is good for a full conversational session, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief coaching or reminders. These formats offer flexibility so people can use the way that best matches their routine and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English