Ashley Gaines
Calm, practical help for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ashley
Ashley Gaines is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who focuses on issues that often affect family life and parenting. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and relationship concerns in practical, straightforward ways. Her approach is warm and respectful and she adjusts conversations to fit each person’s needs.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy easier and affirms the courage it takes to get started.
Background and approach
Ashley uses a mix of methods so sessions match what a person needs. She draws on client-centered work to follow the client’s lead and build trust. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and small behaviors that keep problems going.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy guides conversations about attachment and connection when relationships feel strained. She also brings mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing into sessions to support attention, coping, and readiness for change. Over two decades of practice have included work with issues like parenting, family stress, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment challenges, and ADHD.
Ashley works with concerns tied to chronic illness, caregiver stress, and blended family transitions. Sessions are tailored rather than one-size-fits-all. Ashley explains options, tests what helps, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
She uses clear language and practical steps so people can apply what they learn between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Ashley often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing small behaviors. This approach is practical and often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching clear skills to try between sessions.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice and shift patterns in close relationships. EFT supports clearer communication and stronger emotional connection when attachment or relationship issues are central.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan so methods fit each person’s situation. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what feels useful for the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and parents. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide shorter or more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while balancing family and parenting responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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