About Ashley
Ashley Johnnies is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois with five years of professional experience. She centers sessions on clients' strengths and personal knowledge of their lives. Ashley frames therapy as a practical partnership where small steps can lead to meaningful change.
Ashley helps people work through stress, anxiety, and anger, and supports those processing trauma and abuse. She also assists people managing depression and relationship strains. Her focus includes parenting challenges, grief, intimacy-related concerns, and family dynamics that affect daily life.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on a mix of proven methods. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters to them and take committed action. Cognitive-behavioral tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
Client-centered listening guides the pace and priorities of each session. Ashley also brings elements from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work when people need skills for emotional regulation or want to repair connection in close relationships. She tailors sessions to what each person needs in the moment.
Conversations are direct, practical, and grounded in everyday life. People who choose Ashley can expect a calm, respectful space to talk things through and try new ways of coping. She encourages clear goals, simple homework between sessions, and steady steps toward greater balance.
The work is collaborative and paced to fit each person's situation.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Ashley often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and building practical coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashley will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaborative decision makes it easier to adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different situations. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits brief check-ins or mid-day breaks, and messaging supports ongoing work between meetings. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English