About Ashley
Ashley Reid is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and trauma. She approaches therapy with a straightforward, supportive style that focuses on practical steps and the client’s strengths. Ashley speaks plainly, listens closely, and helps people find what works for their daily life.
She draws on 11 years of professional experience in Kentucky and on training from the University of Kentucky, where she earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Social Work.
Background and approach
Ashley has also supervised newer therapists in areas such as anxiety, trauma, and motivation, which informs how she structures sessions and teaches coping skills. Sessions are goal-focused and collaborative. Ashley helps people identify small, manageable changes and practices they can use between meetings.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts tools to match each person’s needs and pace. Her work includes support for relationship and communication concerns, parenting stress, body image and eating issues, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to adoption or attachment. She pays attention to how life transitions and past losses shape current struggles and coping patterns.
Ashley emphasizes the client’s expertise in their own life. She works to build confidence, increase coping skills, and reduce overwhelm through clear strategies and steady encouragement. Her approach is warm, direct, and focused on practical outcomes.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many clients benefit from approaches that focus on skills and patterns. One common evidence-based technique emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and depression; it teaches practical exercises people can use between sessions. Another helpful approach centers on managing stress and trauma by building coping skills, grounding practices, and routines that lessen overwhelm and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try short-term strategies, and adjust methods based on what is helping. This collaborative process means clients help guide which techniques fit their needs and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues help the process. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, symptom tracking, and continued contact between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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