- Stress and anxiety
- Addiction support
- Attachment work
About Ashley
Ashley French is an LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor) and LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) practicing in Kentucky with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship issues, grief, bipolar disorder, LGBT concerns, family patterns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career questions, depression, and coping with life changes. Her writing and practice emphasize facing life’s harder moments honestly rather than avoiding them.
Ashley frames pain as part of living fully and helps people notice how they’ve disconnected from their own thoughts and feelings. She listens to personal stories and gives clear feedback based on what she observes and what clients describe. That feedback aims to surface recurring patterns and conditioned ways of thinking that get in the way of making different choices.
In sessions she draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and on client-centered ways of keeping the conversation grounded in the person’s experience. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and existential questions can be used when practical skills or meaning-focused reflection are helpful. Jungian perspectives and mindfulness work may appear when exploring deeper symbols or present-moment awareness fits the client’s goals.
Ashley helps people identify values and concrete goals and then practice new behaviors that reflect those priorities. She pays attention to how past losses, abandonment, and family history influence current coping. Practical steps and repeated practice are part of the work, not only talk.
She works with people who are dealing with caregiver stress, codependency, substance concerns, communication problems, and recovery from trauma. The approach is collaborative: decisions about techniques come from what the client needs and wants.
How her approaches translate to online work
Ashley uses attachment-based ideas to look at how people relate to others and to their own feelings. That approach helps when patterns from family history or abandonment repeat in adult life and when someone wants clearer ways to connect or set boundaries.She also works in a client-centered way, staying close to what the person is experiencing and shaping sessions around their present concerns. This means the conversation starts from the person’s story and moves toward practical steps that feel doable.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, appears when skills training is useful. DBT offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and changing unhelpful behaviors, which can be helpful for anxiety, addiction, or relationship conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ashley will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process may include trying skills-based work, reflective meaning-focused sessions, or a mix of both.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so people can schedule workday or evening appointments more easily.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Kentucky, Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly address?
Ashley works with stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship and family issues, grief, bipolar disorder, depression, career transitions, and coping with life changes among other concerns.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She combines client-centered listening with clear observational feedback, using skills and reflective work to help people notice patterns and try different behaviors.
What is her background and experience?
She has 20 years of clinical experience helping people process pain, reconnect with values, and practice new ways of coping and relating.
Which credentials and region apply to this therapist?
She holds LCPC and LPCC credentials and practices in Kentucky.
In what languages can I work with her and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started if I want to work together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
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