- Years in practice
- 12
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Depression
About Ashley
Ashley Donahue is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Illinois. She brings 12 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for parents and individuals facing everyday stress. Ashley uses straightforward methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting challenges.
She emphasizes approaches that link thoughts and actions. That means clients learn skills to notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to reach goals.
Background and approach
Ashley often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions alongside mindfulness and motivational techniques. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what clients want to change. Parents can expect help with sleep, anger, self-esteem, boundary setting, and balancing caregiving with other life demands.
Ashley also works with people coping with grief, trauma, ADHD, and major life transitions. Her style is collaborative and practical. She stands with each person as they set small, doable steps and track progress over time.
The work can include skill practice, values clarification, and short-term behavior experiments. Ashley has experience across a broad range of life stages and family situations. She aims to create plainspoken plans that fit into busy days.
People leave sessions with tools they can try between meetings and adjust as life changes.
What Ashley works with
Everything Ashley lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Ashley helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Ashley lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Online approaches that teach skills and values
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them, then take small steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that fit a chosen life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or parenting routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ashley will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. That collaboration includes trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as things change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy parents and people with tight schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a work break, a nap window, or a shorter routine while still focusing on real behavior changes and coping skills.
Questions people ask about Ashley
What concerns does Ashley often help with?
Ashley works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and related problems such as sleeping difficulties and anger.
What kind of therapy style does she use?
Her approach is collaborative and skill-focused, using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with mindfulness and motivational techniques to build practical changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 12 years of professional experience working with a wide range of life concerns, including family stressors, trauma-related issues, and mood disorders.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Ashley holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential, listed as LCPC, and practices with that credential in Illinois.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She meets with people using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions billed or priced?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.
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