Ashley Schorkhuber
Practical, trauma-informed social work for families
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ashley
Ashley Schorkhuber is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She aims to help people reconnect with their own strengths when stress, trauma, or life changes make those strengths hard to see. Her approach is warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed, with attention to what feels doable for each person.
She brings six years of experience from community mental health settings. That work included supporting people facing anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
She has also worked with those dealing with housing instability, community violence, and systemic barriers that complicate recovery. Ashley often helps people improve communication, set boundaries, and manage compassion fatigue. She supports parents and others dealing with family and relationship struggles, including blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and family-of-origin patterns.
She also addresses workplace stress, prejudice and discrimination, and young adult challenges. Her counseling style emphasizes teamwork. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, strengthening coping skills, and building everyday tools that fit a person's life.
She works at a pace the client chooses and centers practical steps alongside emotional work. Ashley values respect and curiosity in the therapeutic relationship. She aims to create an atmosphere where people can be honest about what’s working and what isn’t.
Many people seek her help during major life transitions, after trauma, or when feeling stuck, and she offers steady support through those moments.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Ashley uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and healing after difficult experiences. One approach emphasizes trauma-informed care, which means recognizing how past hurt affects current thoughts and behaviors and building coping strategies that reduce distress. Another common emphasis is person-centered work, which centers the person’s goals and pace while strengthening their own resources and decision-making skills.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Ashley works collaboratively with each person to identify which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the work stays relevant and doable.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that is helpful. They can also make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions or when scheduling challenges arise. Licensed professionals tailor session length and focus to match what people need and what works in their daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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