Ashley Cole, LCSW, LICSW
Licensed in Tennessee · 7 years in practice
Ashley Cole is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate major life changes and the emotions that come with them.
License and registration
- LCSW, Tennessee
- 7255 · expires October 2027
- LICSW, Massachusetts
- 125275 · expires October 2026
- NPI
- 1700455847 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
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About Ashley
Ashley Cole is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate major life changes and the emotions that come with them. She uses a practical, down-to-earth approach to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression so clients can take the next steps in their lives. Ashley brings seven years of clinical experience and works from Tennessee offering sessions in English.
Ashley focuses on common life problems like career shifts, relationship strain, parenting concerns, grief, and transitions that feel overwhelming.
Background and approach
She supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and identity issues including LGBT concerns. Her work also addresses anger, low self-esteem, intimacy questions, and the strain of caregiving. In sessions she listens closely, helps people make sense of their feelings, and teaches practical tools to handle daily choices.
She aims to help clients move from feeling stuck to taking small, concrete steps toward their goals. Conversations often include problem-solving, emotional processing, and skills to manage anxiety and depression. Ashley also helps with communication problems, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and midlife transitions.
She supports those facing guilt, loneliness, questions about life purpose, or challenges tied to multicultural experiences. Her practice includes coaching-style work when people want focused action on career or life goals. Beginning therapy with Ashley involves talking about what matters most and setting short-term goals to try between sessions.
She frames change as a step-by-step process and partners with people to find what actually works in their daily lives.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Ashley lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Online support
How practical therapy methods work online
Ashley uses evidence-based techniques that focus on making real changes. One common approach is problem-focused work that identifies obstacles and creates step-by-step plans to move forward; this helps with career transitions, decision-making, and feeling stuck. Another approach centers on emotional processing and coping skills to reduce anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma by naming feelings and practicing manageable strategies for day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Ashley will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She collaborates to try methods that fit the person and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing support between appointments, or when writing out thoughts feels helpful. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Ashley commonly address?
Ashley helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, career changes, and LGBT related concerns. She also addresses compassion fatigue, ADHD, anger, and self-esteem problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Ashley listens, helps people process emotions, and teaches skills for managing daily choices and taking concrete steps forward.
How much experience does she have?
Ashley has seven years of clinical experience working with adults on life transitions, career questions, and emotional concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices from Tennessee.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are offered?
Work can happen by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the person best.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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