About Ashton
I didn't become a therapist because I had all the answers.
I became a therapist because I've always been curious about people - what shapes us, how relationships impact us, and why certain experiences stay with us long after they've ended.
An Unexpected Path
Before becoming a therapist, I spent several years working in digital marketing. While I enjoyed many aspects of that work, I found myself drawn to something deeper. I was often more interested in the people behind the work—their stories, relationships, struggles, and what made them who they are.
Eventually, I realized that curiosity wasn't just an interest. It was pointing me toward a different path.
My own experience in therapy also played an important role in that journey. Through my own healing process, I learned how powerful it can be to have a space where you don't need to perform, have the right answer, or carry everything alone. I experienced firsthand how greater self-understanding can lead to more self-compassion, healthier relationships, and meaningful change.
Today, that experience shapes how I show up with my clients.
What It's Like to Work With Me
Clients often tell me they feel comfortable opening up more quickly than they expected.
My style is warm, inviting, and deeply relational. While I take this work seriously, I don't believe therapy needs to feel overly clinical or intimidating. I strive to create a space where you can bring your full experience, messy, uncertain, complicated, and all.
You don't need to know exactly what to say. You don't need to have everything figured out.
We'll simply start where you are.
Together, we'll explore the experiences and relationships that have shaped you, understand the patterns that may no longer be serving you, and create space for new ways of relating to yourself and others.
I believe many of the struggles people carry make sense in the context of what they've lived through. Anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, self-criticism are all patterns that often began as ways of adapting, protecting yourself, or surviving difficult circumstances.
Rather than judging those parts of you, we'll work to understand them. Because when we understand ourselves with greater compassion, change becomes possible.
A Few Things I Believe
Healing happens in relationships.
Insight is important, but lasting change happens through experience.
The coping strategies that frustrate us today often developed for good reasons.
You don't have to earn care, support, or compassion.
Meaningful growth doesn't come from becoming someone new—it comes from reconnecting with who you already are.
Training & Approaches
My work is informed by:
Attachment-Based Therapy
Trauma-Informed Care
Internal Family Systems (IFS-Informed)
Brainspotting
Healing Our Core Issues (HOCI)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Experiential Therapy
While these frameworks guide my work, I believe therapy is about much more than techniques. The relationship we build together is one of the most important parts of the process.
Why This Work Matters to Me
Every person who walks into therapy brings a unique story, shaped by experiences, relationships, challenges, and strengths that deserve to be met with care and respect.
Being invited into that process is something I value deeply.
Wherever you find yourself today, you don't have to navigate it alone.