About Ashley
Ashley Murphy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina. She brings 22 years of counseling experience to her practice. Her work focuses on practical steps families and individuals can take to manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions.
She uses a person-centered approach that treats the client as the expert on their life. Sessions aim to build understanding, identify strengths, and try small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Ashley also incorporates cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to help with thinking patterns and emotional regulation. Ashley has substantial experience supporting people who have experienced trauma and abuse. She also helps with parenting challenges, blended family issues, fatherhood concerns, and family conflict.
Clients turn to her for help with impulsivity, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, panic attacks, self-harm, and recovery after domestic violence. Her approach includes solution-focused tools and motivational interviewing techniques to set goals and keep progress moving. She works with people coping with abandonment wounds, low self-esteem, relationship struggles, and the strain of major life changes.
Coaching-style sessions are available when clients want concrete plans and accountability. Ashley’s background includes school-based counseling and telehealth work. She received recognition for school mental health work in 2021.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ashley commonly uses client-centered work that treats the person as the authority on their life. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people notice their own strengths and choices. It is helpful for building trust and clarifying values.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. CBT offers hands-on tools for managing anxiety, panic, obsessive thoughts, and low mood by testing unhelpful thoughts and trying new responses. Mindfulness therapy is used alongside CBT to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashley works collaboratively to match techniques to a client's goals, needs, and preferences. She may try different strategies early on and adjust them as progress and feedback indicate what works best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is suited to deeper therapy work when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers written reflection. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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