About Ashlie
Ashlie Lucas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of experience offering steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and life transitions. She practices from Louisiana and focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel understood and more able to manage what’s overwhelming them.
She creates a calm space where someone can name worries and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. She helps clients notice patterns in thinking and behavior, then practices small changes that build momentum. Ashlie draws on several therapeutic approaches to match a person’s needs.
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered techniques to follow a person’s lead and build trust. She has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship struggles, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, mood conditions, and addiction.
ADHD is listed among her focus areas and she brings practical strategies for attention and impulse concerns without promising diagnostic services. People often come for help with coping skills, communication problems, guilt and shame, or difficult life changes. Ashlie aims to keep things simple and useful so clients can try tools between sessions and notice real differences over time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Ashlie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, challenges, and what feels most helpful. That conversation guides whether ACT, CBT, or client-centered listening is used, and approaches can be mixed over time to suit changing needs.
Online work with Ashlie is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and quick coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to work on attention, impulsivity, stress, and daily routines without major scheduling hurdles.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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