- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Ashley
Ashley Martin-Ibarra is an LPC with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and parenting challenges. She practices in Texas and draws on practical therapy methods to help people cope with depression, grief, relationship strain, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She favors straightforward, person-focused work that centers on each client’s goals.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and solution-minded. She listens for what matters most to a client, then uses techniques that help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Ashley blends cognitive behavioral ideas with client-centered and solution-focused approaches. That means she helps clients notice patterns, practice new skills, and try small changes that can make daily life easier. Motivational interviewing and dialectical behavior ideas also inform her work with addiction, anger, and emotion regulation concerns.
Her background includes work in independent practice, community mental health, a behavioral health hospital, and probation settings. This variety shapes how she helps people dealing with complex or overlapping concerns, such as co-morbidity, blended family tensions, codependency, and family-of-origin issues. Sessions address concrete problems like communication breakdown, commitment worries, infidelity fallout, and substance misuse.
The focus is practical steps - clearer limits, better coping strategies, and plans for change that fit a client’s life.
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
Approaches Ashley lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- 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.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps clients find their own answers. This approach is helpful when someone needs emotional support and clearer direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions use practical exercises and simple skills to change unhelpful thought patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and for parenting stress that involves repetitive worry or avoidance.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers specific skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches tools for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and better communication, which can help with anger, addiction urges, and intense relationship reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to choose methods that fit a client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or people prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
Questions people ask about Ashley
What concerns does Ashley commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, parenting issues, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship struggles, anger, and self-esteem concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens, helps set clear goals, and focuses on practical steps to change thoughts and behaviors.
What kind of experience does she have?
Ashley has 15 years of experience in settings such as independent practice, community mental health, a behavioral health hospital, and probation departments.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC, and practices in Texas.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients based in Texas.
What session formats does she offer?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and getting started work?
Cost varies by location and availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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