About Ashley
Dr. Ashley Mitich is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who practices in Illinois and has 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship strain, and the everyday difficulties that make life feel overwhelming.
She approaches care by treating each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on listening to a client's story, spotting strengths, and building practical steps that fit real life.
Background and approach
She aims to make the first steps feel doable instead of daunting. Dr. Mitich uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
She weaves in the Gottman Method when couples or relationship dynamics are a central concern, and she uses narrative techniques to help people rewrite painful self-stories. These methods are used to address intimacy issues, family problems, parenting concerns, and ADHD-related struggles among other topics.
Her work also covers a wide range of focused concerns like trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping problems, career stress, blended family issues, and sexual culture topics such as BDSM and kink. She supports people coping with medical challenges including cancer, and with life changes such as divorce or separation. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-directed.
Dr. Mitich helps people set realistic steps, practice new habits, and track progress. She encourages clients to lean on their own strengths while trying different strategies until something fits.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Mitich draws on attachment-based work to explore how early bonds shape current relationship patterns and emotional responses. That approach can help people notice repeating habits and try new ways of relating to others.She also uses narrative therapy to separate a person from problem-saturated stories and to identify alternative, more helpful life narratives. This approach is useful for people who feel stuck in unhelpful self-descriptions and want to rewrite their story.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Dr. Mitich will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then pick or combine methods that fit. The process is collaborative and can shift as needs evolve.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone needs flexible ways to communicate between longer sessions. These formats aim to make therapy more convenient and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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