Bernard Ashlock, LCPC

Bernard Ashlock is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Kansas with 23 years of experience. He helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and relationship concerns. He also supports those facing parenting challenges, career questions, bipolar mood issues, trauma and abuse, and life transitions.

He uses straightforward, goal-focused work in sessions. Conversations often identify practical steps to try between meetings. He pays attention to what has worked before and builds on people’s strengths.

His background includes work in a crisis stabilization hospital and clinic, private practice, and medical hospital settings. He has led both individual and group work with a range of ages, including senior adults, adults, adolescents, and children. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at two colleges.

Bernard lists Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy among his approaches. In practice he helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts, set small achievable goals, and address the aftereffects of trauma in ways that reduce their impact on daily life.

Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. He communicates in plain language and focuses on what clients can do next. To begin, prospective clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.

How these approaches work online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It breaks problems into practical steps and often includes small exercises to try between sessions, which work well in video or phone sessions.

Solution-Focused Therapy centers on clear, short-term goals and active problem solving. It emphasizes what you want to achieve and the small changes that move you toward that goal, a good fit for messaging and brief check-in formats.

Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impacts of traumatic events and teaches ways to reduce their hold on daily life. Work is paced to the individual's needs and can include grounding techniques and coping strategies that translate to remote sessions.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and help decide which methods to try first. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what helps.

Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging makes it simple to keep a therapy thread going between meetings. These options make it easier to fit regular work on goals into daily life.