Ashleigh Beechy, LCPC, LIMHP

Ashleigh Beechy is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner with 19 years of experience. She practices online from Ohio and supports clients dealing with worry, low mood, relationship strain, and life transitions. She uses clear, practical techniques to help people feel steadier and make changes that fit their lives.

Ashleigh draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to focus on relationships and on what each person needs from therapy. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are added when someone needs tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions include talking through concerns, practicing new skills, and setting small, achievable goals. She encourages clients to try exercises between sessions so progress carries into daily life.

Ashleigh has worked across private practice, crisis centers, hospitals, and schools, bringing a practical perspective to common problems like anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and sleep or eating concerns. She has experience with issues related to identity and intimacy, caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, and attention differences.

Therapy is offered through a mix of video, phone, chat, and text formats. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a first session. Ashleigh aims to help people build coping skills, improve relationships, and move toward clearer goals.

Approaches that fit online care

Ashleigh commonly combines cognitive behavioral methods with attachment-based and client-centered work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or depression. Attachment-based approaches look at how relationship patterns affect feelings and help people build more stable ways of relating. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation that centers the person's own goals and pace.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what is most helpful. That means approaches can be blended so work feels practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can be a quick check-in or ongoing support, and messaging is helpful for brief updates between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, travel, or a busy life.