Ashley Rankin, LCSW

Ashley Rankin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who provides individual and couples therapy with a focus on relationships, family dynamics, grief, career concerns, and coping with life changes. With an emphasis on practical strategies and empathetic support, she helps people navigate transitions and manage symptoms related to mood, anxiety, trauma, and developmental differences.

Ashley grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and moved to Central Florida in 2018 to pursue graduate study. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Appalachian State University and a Master of Clinical Social Work from the University of Central Florida. The master of clinical social work is a graduate degree that prepares clinicians for direct therapeutic practice and advanced clinical work.

She holds LCSW licensure in multiple states, including Florida, Oregon, and Arizona, and brings five years of professional experience in psychotherapy, crisis management, treatment planning, self-advocacy coaching, and career counseling. Her additional clinical focus areas include work with autistic clients and those with intellectual or sensory differences, mood and panic disorders, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, and traumatic brain injury.

Ashley lives in St. Cloud, Florida, with her husband and their German Shepherd. Outside of work she enjoys reading, running, and listening to podcasts.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client as the expert in their own experience. In practice this means the therapist offers empathic listening and unconditional respect while helping clients clarify values, explore relationships, and build self-advocacy skills. This approach tends to be helpful for people facing life transitions, relationship challenges, and identity-related concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and developing concrete strategies to change them. CBT is well suited to managing anxiety, panic symptoms, mood difficulties, and problems with avoidance or unhelpful behaviors, and it often includes skills training and practical homework to reinforce progress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Ashley works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts interventions over time as those needs evolve.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage with licensed professionals. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone meetings can fit busy schedules, and live chat or text-based messaging support more frequent check-ins and shorter touchpoints. These options help make care more accessible and easier to integrate into daily life.