Approach: Ashley’s approach to therapy is experiential, emotionally-focused, and relational, based on a firm belief that healing occurs in the context of relationship. In therapy, you are free to use whatever strikes you: the therapeutic relationship, emotion, creativity and imagination to pursue healing — as you define it, on your terms. Ashley’s theoretical orientation is grounded by an anti-oppressive, liberative lens and informed by relational-cultural, systems and interpersonal theories and the emerging work of affective neuroscience.
Specialties:
- self-care for activists
- interracial families
- lgbtq identities
- post-partum depression and mood disorders
- integrating alternative medicine with psychotherapy
- relationships, relationships! (family, partners, friends)
- life stage transitions
- identity formation and development (racial, cultural, spiritual, religious, gender)
- immigration and international issues
- caregiver/helping professionals compassion fatigue and burnout
- adoption & foster care
- complex loss, bereavement and grief
- sexual assault and abuse survivorship
How this works: All sessions take place in Ashley’s virtual or Virginia office. Individual sessions range from 45-50 minutes and family sessions for 60 minutes. The frequency and length of your treatment will be evaluated jointly on an ongoing basis. Some folks come weekly, others bi-weekly. Some folks stay a few months, others longer. You’ll decide!
Qualifications: Ashley has worked with a host of folks and life experiences since she began practicing social work in 2007. She has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work (BSW and MSW) from James Madison University in Virginia and Columbia University in New York City, respectively. Ashley also holds a bachelors degree in modern foreign language (Spanish). She has extensive training in several evidenced based models (EBPs), including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Traumatic Loss and Bereavement group therapy, Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Training (DBT) Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills Training for Affective and Interpersonal Regulation with Narrative Story Telling (STAIR-NST). Ashley integrates these models into her practice as needed. Her work is rooted deeply in training from the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy and the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute.
Fees: Ashley is currently an out-of-network provider for all insurances and is paid privately per session. A Superbill is available for all clients through the client portal for immediate reimbursement.