Ashley Spitzer, LISW

Ashley Spitzer is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with two decades in behavioral health. She keeps sessions relaxed and straightforward. She invites clients to speak freely and uses therapy time for venting, processing, and setting clear goals. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take practical steps forward.

Ashley focuses on what is happening now and what a person needs most. She customizes interventions based on client feedback and comfort. That can mean talking through thoughts and behaviors, practicing new ways of coping, or using trauma-informed tools when needed. She emphasizes consistency, empathy, and healthy boundaries as foundations for change.

Her work covers many concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, sleep and eating issues, parenting stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She has experience helping people navigate relationship and family problems, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and career or life transitions.

Ashley draws from several therapy approaches to match a person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, client-centered techniques, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate. She invites feedback so therapy fits each person.

Based in Ohio, Ashley works with people ages 13 and up. She aims to educate and empower clients to care for mind, body, and spirit while helping them build practical skills for daily life.

How Ashley’s Approaches Work Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with stress, sleep, and mood concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ashley will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest techniques to try. She invites feedback so the plan can be adjusted, making therapy a collaborative process rather than a fixed program.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking since the profile does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let someone use less bandwidth by choosing audio-only connections or keep a session shorter for focused problem-solving. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT exercises to remote sessions so the work still focuses on meaningful change.