Ashley Brinkman, LPCC

Ashley Brinkman is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Minnesota with six years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or major life changes. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at making conversations feel manageable and clear from the first session.

She uses straightforward tools to address relationship strain, communication problems, and anger. Ashley also works with people facing trauma, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic attacks, bipolar mood concerns, and issues linked to pregnancy and childbirth. Sessions focus on practical steps a person can try between meetings.

Ashley draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to shape sessions. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, test them, and choose actions that match their values. She frames exercises in plain language and adapts them to each person's daily life.

Therapy with Ashley is collaborative. She listens for what matters most, then builds a plan that fits someone’s schedule and goals. People can expect clear goals, simple skills to practice, and check-ins on progress.

Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make contact easier. Sessions are held in English and conducted with attention to each person’s needs and comfort.

How CBT and ACT work for online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence. It focuses on small, practical changes in thinking and behavior to reduce anxiety, panic, OCD symptoms, and low mood.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to clarify their values and take actions that match those values even when difficult feelings are present. ACT can be helpful for persistent stress, relationship challenges, and coping with life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Ashley works together with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals and daily routine. That collaborative process may mix CBT tasks, ACT exercises, and tailored strategies based on what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video suits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people share between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, childcare, or other commitments while keeping therapy consistent.