About Ashley
Ashley Rankin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with five years of practice. She offers a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical steps people can use now. Ashley is based in Florida and speaks English.
She helps people handle relationship stress, family challenges, grief, career transitions, and major life changes. Her background includes work with autism and Asperger syndrome, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and traumatic brain injury.
Background and approach
Ashley draws on that range to tailor each plan. Ashley trained in social work, earning a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and a Master of Clinical Social Work. She holds a Florida LCSW license.
Her training and early practice included crisis response and treatment planning, which inform her practical approach. In sessions she keeps language clear and direct. Conversations often focus on immediate coping skills, realistic goal-setting, and steps to improve daily functioning.
She uses client-centered conversation to learn what matters to the person and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Outside of work Ashley lives in St. Cloud, Florida, with her husband and a German Shepherd.
She enjoys running, reading, and listening to podcasts when she is not meeting with people.
How Ashley blends approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a treatment plan around what matters to the person. The therapist creates a supportive space and follows the client’s priorities to decide what to work on next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches practical skills to change patterns that contribute to anxiety, panic, low mood, or difficulty coping with change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ashley will listen to goals and try strategies together to see what fits best. If one approach isn’t helping, adjustments are made so the plan matches the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth discussion. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, shorter exchanges, or when writing out thoughts helps the person reflect. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to keep consistent contact while working toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Oregon, Arizona
- Languages
- English