Ashley Lawrence, LPCC

Ashley Lawrence is an Ohio licensed professional counselor who helps people facing relationship strain, trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. She approaches therapy with respect for each person's strengths and choices. Her tone is straightforward and encouraging for someone taking a first step toward support.

Ashley believes clients are the experts on their own stories. She aims to build practical plans with clear goals. Sessions often focus on coping strategies, improving communication, and managing strong emotions like anger or low self-esteem.

With 17 years of experience, Ashley draws on a mix of methods to match the person in front of her. She uses client-centered ways to keep sessions focused on what matters to the client. She also works with cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns.

She integrates skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help regulate intense feelings and strengthen relationships. For clients affected by traumatic memories, she includes approaches that target processing and reducing the hold those memories have on daily life.

Ashley also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness or disability, and aging and geriatric issues. She offers coaching-style guidance for practical problem solving when needed. The overall aim is steady progress through compassion, skill-building, and realistic steps forward.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Ashley commonly uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions focus on the concerns you bring and on your own goals. This approach helps people feel heard and keeps work practical and relevant. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches ways to shift unhelpful patterns to improve mood and behavior.

These approaches are offered in collaboration. Ashley will work with you to figure out which methods fit your needs and preferences. Figuring that out is part of the first sessions, and adjustments are made over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Confirm the specific online session options before booking because formats were not listed in the biography. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make attendance possible when caregiving or health concerns limit going out. Licensed professionals can use online sessions to teach skills, guide behavioral experiments, process difficult feelings, and check progress between visits.