Ashley Kraskey
Compassionate listening and practical support
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ashley
Ashley Kraskey practices using a client-centered approach that centers each person’s experience. She focuses on listening carefully and shaping sessions around what feels most useful in the moment. Ashley holds an LPCC, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and brings five years of clinical experience in Minnesota to her work.
She commonly helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns. Parenting and self-esteem are frequent topics she addresses, along with family problems and struggles tied to adoption, attachment, or abandonment.
Background and approach
Her background also includes work related to autism, substance use, eating concerns, dissociation, and other complex issues. Ashley aims to make sessions feel relaxed and welcoming so people can speak openly. Some meetings focus on deep processing and looking at past experiences.
Other sessions emphasize everyday skills, problem solving, and coping strategies that are practical to use between meetings. She uses a mix of methods such as narrative and trauma-focused techniques to help people reframe their stories and process difficult events. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used to set achievable goals and build momentum toward change.
If someone feels nervous about starting therapy, Ashley acknowledges that fear is normal and offers straightforward answers to questions about the process. New clients are encouraged to take the initial step and schedule a time that works for them.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Ashley uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize the person’s own perspective. This approach means sessions are guided by what feels most important to the individual, helping build trust and clearer goals. It is useful for people who want a supportive, listening-based space to work through stress or low mood.Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past events continue to affect day-to-day life. In plain terms this involves carefully processing difficult memories and building skills to reduce their impact. That approach can help with trauma, dissociation, and related reactions that show up in relationships and daily routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ashley collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She often combines approaches so sessions move between understanding past experiences and practicing concrete coping steps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to check in between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to continue steady progress while adapting pace and tools to what the client prefers.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Narrative Therapy
Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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