Ashley Hayes , LICSW

Ashley Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with eight years of clinical experience supporting people through difficult life transitions and complex health challenges. As a LICSW, she has advanced training in clinical social work and provides psychotherapy to adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, caregiving stress, and trauma. She has worked extensively with clients facing serious illnesses and difficult medical decisions, and she also works in an oncology clinic while drawing on personal experience as a recent cancer survivor to inform her whole-health perspective.

Ashley’s approach is client-centered, strengths-based, and solution-focused, helping clients set realistic expectations and work toward goals they identify as meaningful. She places strong value on the therapeutic relationship and aims to create a space where clients both feel heard and can learn to hear themselves amid the noise of worry and stress. To promote clarity and more functional patterns of thinking, she integrates mindfulness practices with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, tailoring strategies to each person’s needs and circumstances.

With experience spanning grief, LGBT concerns, caregiver stress, sleep difficulties, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and many other areas, Ashley helps people build coping skills and resilience while honoring the whole-person connection between mind and body.

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care

Ashley uses several evidence-informed methods that translate well to online formats. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and take committed action toward them while learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts and emotions - it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and gently changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning, effective for anxiety, depression, sleep concerns, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental observation of thoughts and feelings, which can support emotional regulation, reduce rumination, and aid coping with chronic illness or grief.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative part of the work. Ashley will work with each person to explore which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods over time so therapy feels practical and relevant.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules, easier access for those managing health or caregiving responsibilities, and the ability to continue care from home. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver structured interventions, teach skills, and maintain a therapeutic relationship while accommodating different communication styles and life demands.