Dr. Ashley Mitich
Attachment-informed counselor blending relational and narrative care
About Ashley
Dr. Ashley Mitich practices with a focus on attachment-informed care, blending relational and narrative techniques to help people navigate stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 14 years of experience, and she frames therapy around each person's strengths and life story while addressing issues like self-esteem, depression, motivation, and coping with change. Her work also includes attention to family dynamics, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related challenges, and sleep difficulties.
Additional focus areas include ADHD, attachment issues, blended family concerns, communication and commitment problems, codependency, and topics related to alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Career and parenting challenges, fatherhood issues, and support through medical or disaster-related stressors are also within her scope.
Clients can expect a collaborative approach that honors their perspective and capacity to shape change. Dr.
Mitich encourages people to recognize their existing resources while exploring new narratives and relational patterns to improve functioning and well-being.
Applying Attachment and Narrative Approaches Online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationship patterns shape emotional responses and closeness; it helps people identify and shift unhelpful interaction cycles that contribute to anxiety, relationship distress, and insecurity. The Gottman Method offers practical skills and structured interventions aimed at improving communication, conflict management, and intimacy in relationships. Narrative Therapy emphasizes understanding and reshaping the stories people tell about themselves, which can reduce feelings of helplessness and open pathways for new perspectives and choices.
Determining which approach or combination of approaches will be most useful is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences and tailor methods accordingly, adjusting over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides flexibility for fitting sessions into busy lives and for maintaining continuity when in-person visits are difficult. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver attachment-informed, Gottman-based, and narrative work in ways that accommodate different communication styles and schedules while supporting consistent therapeutic progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English