- Client-centered work
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Mindfulness techniques
About Ashley
Ashley Farrens is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 10 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation. Ashley also addresses concerns related to faith, compassion fatigue, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and life purpose.
Ashley focuses on straightforward conversation. She listens to each person’s story and helps them sort out what matters now. She uses familiar methods from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and solution-focused approaches when those fit the person’s goals.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. People can expect to talk about specific thoughts, behaviors, and small experiments to try between sessions. Ashley pays attention to how faith or personal values shape choices, and she helps people weigh those values alongside current challenges.
She aims to reduce overwhelm by breaking problems into manageable steps. That can mean short-term problem solving or a longer series of sessions for deeper issues like trauma and grief. Ashley works at a steady pace and checks in about what is most useful.
Her style is direct but respectful. She will work with each person to set clear goals and measure progress. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session using the site’s online options.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Ashley commonly draws on client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online practice. Client-centered work means she listens closely to what matters to the person and shapes sessions around those concerns. This approach is useful for sorting values, faith questions, and emotional overwhelm. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps with anxiety, social fears, and the negative thought patterns that feed guilt or shame.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley will review goals, preferences, and the problem at hand and suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is reviewed over time.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten some visits for quick check-ins, or avoid travel time. Many people find it helpful to use sessions for focused skill practice, thought records, and planning small experiments between meetings.
Areas of expertise
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Missouri
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she help with?
Ashley works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety.
How would she approach shame or guilt?
She uses client-centered conversation alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness tools to look at thoughts, behaviors, and values. The work focuses on practical steps and experiments to change patterns that keep guilt or shame active.
How much experience does she have?
Ashley has 10 years of professional experience working with adults on a range of concerns including trauma, grief, and anxiety.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Missouri and practices from that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions arranged and paid for?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.