About Ashley
Ashley Reid is a Kentucky-based licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, depression, and changes in life. She works with concerns like low self-esteem, motivation, grief, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She also assists people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, eating and body image issues, and relationship or communication struggles.
Reid earned both her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and her Master of Social Work from the University of Kentucky.
Background and approach
She holds a Kentucky LCSW license. Over more than a decade in practice, she has supported clients across a range of concerns and has supervised newer therapists in those areas. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative.
She treats the person, not just a diagnosis, and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Sessions typically include talking through current problems, identifying strengths, and building small skills that make a tangible difference. Clients can expect a supportive, encouraging style that emphasizes empowerment.
The therapist draws on both clinical experience and personal insight to help people set realistic goals. Reid aims to make the work feel doable rather than overwhelming. She offers a calm, steady presence while helping people practice new ways of coping.
Whether someone needs short-term support through a specific crisis or longer work on patterns like anger or codependency, she helps break issues into manageable pieces and celebrate progress along the way.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Ashley uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes skill building to manage anxiety and stress through breathing, pacing, and small behavior changes that make daily life easier. Another approach addresses trauma and abuse by helping people name what happened, reduce overwhelming reactions, and build coping strategies that restore a sense of safety and control.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to match methods to goals and preferences. That collaborative process means plans can be adjusted as needs change or as someone learns what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief updates, homework, or emotional support into a busy day. These options help people keep regular contact and continue progress when schedules or travel make in-person visits difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English