About Ashley
Ashley Longabaugh-Cantos is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with six years of clinical experience. She invites people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or big life changes to talk about what’s happening and find practical ways forward. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and often lightened with appropriate humor to ease hard moments.
Clients can expect straightforward, respectful conversations that focus on what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs and keeps sessions focused on real-life skills. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit a person’s comfort level. Her background includes work with people impacted by adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and eating and body-image concerns.
She has experience addressing communication problems, codependency, commitment and control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, grief and emptiness. Ashley integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, client-centered techniques, and motivational interviewing into her work. That mix helps people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and build consistent habits.
She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People in Florida who want an approachable, practical counselor will find her style straightforward and supportive.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what truly matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing concrete strategies to change them. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person’s perspective, offering empathic listening and space to make decisions at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to try methods that fit their goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative stance helps tailor sessions to what actually helps the individual in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and practicing skills together, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English