About Ashley
Ashley Johnnies is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with five years of professional experience. She focuses on supporting people who struggle with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, self-esteem, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Ashley emphasizes client strengths and collaboration, viewing each person as the expert on their own story while offering clinical skills to help navigate difficult moments. Her approach blends evidence-based methods to address emotional regulation, communication, and healing after loss or trauma.
Clients can expect a supportive therapeutic presence that encourages courage and practical change. Ashley aims to empower clients to build more fulfilling, balanced lives by combining clinical techniques with an appreciation for individual resilience and values.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and take committed actions toward a meaningful life, often used for stress, anxiety, and patterns that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and attachment patterns to improve connection and resolve relational distress.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Ashley collaborates with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review options and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, blending techniques when appropriate to address emotional regulation, communication, or trauma-related concerns.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into varied schedules and daily routines. These options allow licensed professionals to maintain continuity of care, support skill-building between sessions, and adapt contact methods to a client's comfort and availability.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English