About Ashley
Ashley Cloud greets clients with a calm, direct style and a focus on real-life change. She helps people break unhelpful thinking and behavior, manage stress and anxiety, and cope with grief and major life shifts. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and holds an LMHC license in Washington state while practicing from Texas.
Ashley aims to make therapy simple and practical. Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most, then helps you set clear, doable steps toward your goals. Her approach draws heavily on behavioral ideas, including techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy. She also uses client-centered methods to match support to each person’s style.
Trauma-focused work is available when past events are keeping someone stuck. Over five years working in mental health and substance abuse settings shaped her practice. That background includes helping people with addiction, first responder stress, and mood or trauma-related problems.
She brings that experience into short-term and longer-term work. Ashley offers sessions in several online formats and keeps scheduling hours early in the day to fit many routines. She encourages straightforward conversation about goals, barriers, and what feels most helpful in therapy.
The emphasis is on building skills, reducing shame and guilt, and growing self-compassion.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Ashley uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on practical skills and small experiments you can try between sessions, which works well for anxiety, depression, and many mood concerns. She also uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening and working at the client’s pace. This approach aims to create a collaborative relationship where goals come from what matters most to the person in therapy. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. From that discussion she adapts techniques and checks in regularly to make sure the plan feels useful. Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging make short, frequent check-ins and skills practice easier to fit into busy schedules. These options help people keep continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Washington
- Languages
- English