Ashley Askins, LPC-MHSP

Ashley Askins is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) based in Tennessee who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing trauma, parenting strain, self-esteem struggles, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and related challenges. Ashley emphasizes practical steps and steady support to help people move forward.

She believes clients are the experts on their own lives and draws on that knowledge during sessions. Treatment focuses on clear goals, short-term strategies, and building on personal strengths. Conversations are collaborative and focused on what will help most right now.

Ashley uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She often brings elements of attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practice, EMDR, and motivational interviewing into sessions when appropriate. These tools are used to address symptoms, improve coping, and process hard experiences.

Her background includes five years of clinical experience in Tennessee and a focus on addiction coping, trauma recovery, parenting concerns, and anger management. As an LPC-MHSP she provides professional counseling services within her scope of practice. People who want concrete steps, straightforward guidance, and supportive collaboration may find her style a good match.

To start, she asks people to identify a few immediate goals and then builds simple, manageable steps toward them. The work often combines skills practice with deeper exploration of how past relationships affect current reactions and choices.

How key approaches translate to online work

Ashley often uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. This work focuses on patterns in relationships and helps people shift the ways they connect and respond to others.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable parts. CBT offers straightforward tools to reduce anxiety, change routines that keep problems going, and practice new responses.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used sometimes to address traumatic memories by helping the brain reprocess distressing events so they feel less overwhelming. When appropriate this method can be combined with skills training and grounding techniques.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashley works together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort. That choice is revisited as progress is made so the plan evolves with the client.

For practical matters, please confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Therapists can help pick whether a longer weekly session or shorter, more frequent check-ins will best match daily life and treatment goals.