Ashley Maag
Calm, practical support for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LPC-MHSP
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ashley
Ashley Maag is a licensed counselor in Tennessee who focuses on practical support for people facing stress and change. She aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable. Conversations are geared toward real concerns like anxiety, depression, addiction, and major life transitions.
Ashley keeps sessions focused on what a person needs now and next. Her style centers on listening without judgment and helping clients name what matters to them. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot thinking patterns that cause distress.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are offered to build calm and present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants change but feels stuck. Ashley draws on four years of clinical experience across a range of concerns including trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, parenting stress, and coping with chronic illness.
She works to create clear goals and small steps that feel manageable between sessions. Clients can expect a mix of practical skills and empathetic discussion. Sessions may include skill practice, problem-solving, and reflection on patterns that keep problems repeating.
She also addresses issues such as self-esteem, communication problems, and substance use with direct, nonjudgmental conversation. The aim is to leave clients with tools they can use day to day. As an LPC-MHSP licensed counselor, Ashley combines structured methods with a warm, person-focused approach.
She offers help for a wide range of concerns and supports each person in finding workable strategies.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Ashley uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice the thoughts and habits that feed anxiety or low mood. That approach breaks problems into small parts and teaches practical skills to change how someone thinks and acts. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right method is part of the work together. Ashley will listen to your goals and try different tools to see what helps most. The process is collaborative - she helps you test what works and adjusts the plan as needed based on your feedback.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These options make it easier to keep momentum between appointments and to use skills in real life. The combination of structured approaches and flexible session formats aims to make therapy practical and reachable for busy lives.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
Next step
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