Ashley Monacelli, LMSW

Ashley Monacelli is a Licensed Master Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. She supports those dealing with family conflict, intimacy issues, career strain, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and end-of-life or hospice matters. Ashley uses practical tools to help people move forward a step at a time.

Ashley emphasizes clear goals in each session. She listens, helps you set small targets, and uses straightforward strategies to reach them. Sessions focus on skills you can try between meetings and on noticing what helps in daily life.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. That means she looks at how thoughts and actions connect, teaches simple attention and breathing techniques, and helps you find personal reasons to make changes. These methods are used to address anxiety, depression, addictions, and coping with life changes.

Ashley holds a LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker, and she works from Michigan. She has three years of professional experience in clinical settings. Her background includes work in hospice and end-of-life counseling as well as broader social work roles.

People who choose her can expect direct, respectful conversation and practical homework between sessions. She aims to tailor methods to each person's needs, helping them build routines and strategies that fit their life. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Ashley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. In practice this often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing new behaviors, and tracking what changes help reduce anxiety or low mood.

She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. These techniques help reduce reactivity, ground someone during stress, and build clearer awareness of moments that trigger strong emotions.

Motivational Interviewing is part of her toolkit as well and is used to help people clarify their reasons for change. It focuses on a collaborative conversation that explores readiness and strengthens personal motivation instead of pressuring someone to act.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Ashley will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has - or hasn’t - worked in the past, and then try methods that fit those needs in a collaborative way.

Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can be a shorter check-in, an ongoing thread for tracking progress, or a way to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep up with sessions and practice new skills consistently.