Ashley Brummett, LCSW

Ashley Brummett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Kentucky with ten years of counseling experience. She draws on a long career in social work to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Her manner is warm and straightforward and she aims to build a trusting connection with each person who reaches out.

Before focusing on counseling, she worked in child protection, hospice and palliative care, inpatient and outpatient mental health, long-term care, dialysis clinics, and services for adults with cognitive disabilities. Those roles shaped her practical approach to common problems like caregiver stress, bereavement, and adjustment after illness or loss.

Ashley uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered techniques alongside emotionally-focused work and mindfulness. She helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, experiment with small behavior changes, and build healthier emotional patterns. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit for setting goals and finding the motivation to change.

She speaks from both professional and personal experience, having navigated divorce, blended family life, caregiving demands, and grief. That experience informs a compassionate style that accepts different values and beliefs, including religious faith when clients want that included.

Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules. Ashley typically communicates during evenings and weekends and aims to respond promptly to messages. To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.

How Ashley’s approaches translate to online work

Ashley commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. She also uses client-centered therapy, which centers on listening, empathy, and meeting people where they are to build trust and clarify goals. Emotionally-focused ideas appear in her work when the goal is to improve connection and process strong feelings after loss or relationship disruption.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaboration lets the plan change over time if something isn’t helpful or if priorities shift.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video lets people work face-to-face when needed, phone can be useful for lower bandwidth or quicker check-ins, and chat or messaging supports shorter updates or ongoing contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into evenings, weekends, or caregiving schedules while keeping work focused on practical steps and emotional support.