Ashley Faison, LCSW

Ashley Faison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New York with more than 20 years of professional experience. She works with individuals facing parenting challenges, self-esteem and confidence concerns, career difficulties, and major life transitions, and she offers coaching to support practical goal-setting and growth. Her additional focus areas include guilt and shame, life purpose, midlife transition, self-love, workplace issues, and challenges commonly experienced by young adults.

Ashley emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental approach that encourages open sharing of thoughts and feelings. She helps clients build motivation and practical strategies to manage change, enhance confidence, and navigate workplace or life-stage shifts. As a licensed social worker, she brings clinical training and real-world experience to collaborative treatment planning.

Beginning therapy can require courage, and Ashley acknowledges and affirms that first step. She partners with clients to set goals, tailor interventions, and draw on evidence-informed methods such as client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused tools to match each personâs needs and preferences.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Ashley draws on client-centered therapy to create a respectful, empathic space where clients lead the pace and focus of sessions. This approach supports exploration of self-esteem, life purpose, guilt and shame, and parenting concerns by prioritizing understanding and acceptance.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and reframe unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical skills for managing career stress, motivation, and responses to life changes. CBT emphasizes concrete tools and behavioral experiments that can be practiced between sessions.

Mindfulness therapy is offered to strengthen present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which can be useful for coping with transitions, midlife concerns, and building self-love. These approaches are used flexibly and tailored to each personâs needs.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Ashley works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to determine which methods fit an individualâs goals, preferences, and circumstances, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier for clients to access care around work, family, and life commitments. These formats offer flexibility in scheduling and allow therapists to support clients consistently, even when in-person meetings are not practical.