About Ashley
Ashley Barrett is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Missouri. She brings eight years of clinical experience to her work and two decades of experience supporting young people in other roles. Ashley creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard feelings and begin to feel more steady.
She focuses on practical steps that reduce daily overwhelm. Sessions often include learning small habits that make emotional life easier and clearer.
Background and approach
Ashley emphasizes self-compassion and helping people stop harsh self-talk. Ashley commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and symptoms related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). She also supports concerns around addictions, low self-esteem, intimacy, and relationship problems.
Her background includes work with hormonal health concerns such as premenstrual dysphoric disorder and peripartum mood difficulties. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and collaborative. She listens first, then offers straightforward tools and steps clients can try between sessions.
When useful, she includes partners or family members to improve communication and practical support. Ashley describes therapy as a process of connection and small, steady changes. She helps people find routines and coping strategies that fit their life.
Reaching out is framed as a first step toward feeling more like yourself again.
Approaches and what online therapy looks like with Ashley
Ashley uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach she often employs is skills-based work that teaches concrete habits for managing anxiety, low mood, and the distractibility that can come with ADHD. These tools aim to make daily life feel more manageable and predictable.She also draws on approaches that center connection and understanding of personal history, such as attachment-informed work. This helps people see patterns in relationships, understand how past experiences shape reactions now, and try new ways of relating that reduce shame and isolation.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Ashley will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on what is helping and what feels realistic in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a traditional session feel and visual connection. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are helpful for brief updates, quick coping reminders, or when scheduling around work or childcare makes shorter contact more practical.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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