Ashley Kingston, LCPC

Ashley Kingston is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Montana with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults who are coping with anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. Ashley also works with people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and issues with self-esteem and intimacy.

Her work is collaborative and person-centered. She treats the person, not just the problem, and aims to create a respectful space where clients feel heard. Sessions emphasize practical skills and straightforward strategies to manage difficult moments and rebuild daily routines.

Ashley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as one of her main approaches. She pairs this with attachment-focused and client-centered methods to strengthen relationships and patterns that influence mood and behavior. Dialectical skills and existential questions are also woven into sessions when they fit a person's goals.

She often adds body-based tools like breathwork, gentle movement, and mindfulness exercises. These techniques are offered as options to complement talking therapy and to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. Everything is paced to the individual's comfort and needs.

Ashley provides online counseling and favors audio and text formats over video. She helps people choose session types that fit their schedules and daily lives, and she supports international clients in English.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Ashley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with stress because it focuses on concrete strategies and small experiments to try between sessions.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand repeated relationship dynamics and build safer ways of relating to others.

Her client-centered stance keeps sessions grounded in each person's priorities. The therapist collaborates with clients to pick approaches that match their goals and values, adjusting methods as progress unfolds.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to process thoughts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or irregular schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.