About Ashley
Ashley Maag is a licensed professional counselor with four years of practice in Tennessee. She aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life changes. She offers a calm space where clients can speak openly without a judgmental response.
She helps people who are navigating addiction, trauma and abuse, adjustment to disability, and grief. ADHD is listed among her focus areas and is addressed alongside other concerns like career stress, relationship strain, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical skills and steady support rather than quick fixes. Ashley often uses client-centered methods that let the conversation guide the work. She adds cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and coping skills are the focus. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then introduces tools and small steps clients can try between sessions.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help working through ambivalence about change. Ashley’s approach is flexible to meet a range of needs, from managing daily overwhelm to addressing deeper patterns that have caused pain. She explains things in plain language and works with each person’s goals.
The aim is steady progress and more confidence handling life’s demands.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects understanding, and helps people clarify what matters to them. This approach is useful when someone needs a listening space to sort out feelings and decisions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches specific emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for stronger coping in intense moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made along the way based on what helps most.
Online sessions can fit different rhythms of life. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs flexibility across the day.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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