About Ashley
Ashley McCormick North uses a practical therapy style that focuses on thoughts and daily habits. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she brings 24 years of experience to sessions. Her tone is warm and approachable and she aims to make therapy feel straightforward and useful.
Ashley often helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and problems with relationships or intimacy. She also supports people facing addictions, parenting strain, career crossroads, or major life changes.
Background and approach
People also come to her for help with anger, self-esteem, bipolar concerns, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her work centers on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which means conversations focus on how thoughts influence feelings and actions. Sessions involve noticing unhelpful thinking, testing those thoughts against reality, and trying new ways of responding.
That mix of talking and practical steps is meant to create change people can use day to day. Ashley has long experience helping adults cope with family-of-origin issues, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and loss. She also addresses concerns like abandonment, commitment and control issues, guilt, forgiveness, and adapting to aging.
She offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Sessions are available through multiple online formats to fit varied schedules and lifestyles.
How cognitive approaches translate to online care
Ashley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts shape feelings and actions. In a session she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, test those thoughts, and try practical behavior changes that fit everyday life. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship worries, and managing mood shifts.The therapist treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to match techniques to their goals and preferences, adjusting homework and session style as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which exercises and strategies feel most useful.
Online therapy offers straightforward benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person isn’t possible. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging is available for frequent brief check-ins and for people who prefer writing to talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while using CBT tools in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English