About Ashley
Ashley Faison is a New York licensed clinical social worker who helps people build confidence and find direction. She focuses on motivation, self-esteem, career concerns, and coping with life changes. Her style is direct and warm, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable.
Ashley brings 20 years of professional experience to her work. She creates an open space where clients can talk through tough feelings without judgment. Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs, with clear goals and gentle accountability.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches that match the issue at hand. That can mean looking at thoughts and behavior patterns, setting short-term goals, or practicing mindful awareness in daily life. She also draws on solution-focused and motivational methods when clients want targeted changes fast.
Ashley often helps people who are wrestling with guilt or shame, searching for life purpose, or navigating a midlife shift. She also supports those facing workplace stress, young adult transitions, and learning to practice more self-love. In sessions she listens first and then offers steps that feel realistic.
Work may include small experiments between meetings, new ways to reframe difficult thoughts, or short skills practice. The goal is steady progress toward clearer choices and more confidence.
Practical approaches for online sessions and life change
Ashley uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s priorities. That approach means the conversation follows what matters most to the client, with the therapist listening closely and reflecting what she hears. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and options.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT is useful for changing unhelpful thinking, managing workplace stress, and building confidence through small experiments and behavior changes. Solution-focused techniques are used as well to set clear, short-term goals and map the next practical steps.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That lets her tailor sessions so they feel actionable and relevant rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper check-in is needed. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or fit support around busy days. These options help make therapy easier to fit into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English