About Ausha
Ausha Whitehead is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, people-focused therapy to help. She draws on 13 years of experience to help clients manage anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Her approach aims to build confidence and motivation one step at a time.
She focuses on everyday struggles like parenting stress, relationship tension, work pressure, and coping after loss. She also addresses trauma and abuse, mood differences such as bipolar disorder, and attention concerns like ADHD.
Background and approach
Additional areas of focus include issues around adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness, and isolation. In sessions she listens for what matters to each person and then works with them to set clear, realistic goals. She uses therapies that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and reconnect with what they value.
The pace and tools are set to match each person’s needs and comfort level. Her background includes licensure in multiple jurisdictions and over a decade of direct clinical work. She aims to create a respectful space where people can talk through guilt, shame, anger, and loss without feeling rushed.
Progress often looks like improved coping, more emotional balance, and stronger self-esteem. Clients who prefer different ways of meeting can use phone, video, chat, or text sessions. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session that fits the client’s timing and goals.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, grief, and decisions about life changes. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are. This approach helps people feel heard, explore feelings, and build confidence at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It provides concrete tools to change patterns that maintain anxiety or depression and supports measurable progress.Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they choose which approaches or mix of tools to try, adjusting as needed based on what helps most.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a fuller interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when someone has limited bandwidth or needs a shorter check-in. Chat and text messaging work well for quick updates, ongoing coaching, or when sitting down for a full session is difficult. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English