About Ashley
Ashley French brings two decades of clinical experience to her work in Kentucky. She holds LCPC, LPCC and focuses on helping people who are carrying stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, trauma, and related concerns. Her style is direct but compassionate, and she invites clients to notice how they live and what they want to change.
Ashley believes that pain is part of living fully, and that facing it carefully can lead to clearer choices.
Background and approach
She helps people reconnect with their values and goals, and uses observations and a person-centered attitude to point out patterns that get in the way. Sessions are practical and grounded; she talks through day-to-day behaviors and emotions so clients can try new responses outside of sessions. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
She also incorporates client-centered and dialectical techniques to help people regulate strong emotions and build workable habits. Jungian and existential perspectives inform deeper questions about meaning when those issues are important to a client. Ashley pays attention to how family history, adoption or foster experiences, and caregiver stress influence coping.
She also supports people dealing with cancer, compassion fatigue, codependency, and substance issues by focusing on small, concrete steps. The overall aim is clearer self-understanding and choices that fit each person’s life. People who prefer a thoughtful, exploratory, and practical approach tend to fit well with Ashley.
She works collaboratively to set goals and offers feedback that helps clients notice patterns and try different ways forward.
Approaches to work with online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape today's reactions. It helps people understand connection needs, protect against reactivity, and try different ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance; the therapist mirrors what is said and helps clients find their own answers, which is useful for rebuilding confidence and direction. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, focuses on emotional regulation and practical skills for intense emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can change over time as issues evolve and progress is made.
The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins, and offering options that suit different schedules. It also supports continuing work when life events make in-person visits difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to virtual settings to focus on skills practice, reflection, and planning next steps.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Illinois
- Languages
- English