Ashley Schroeder, LPC

Ashley Schroeder is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with five years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and motivation. Ashley aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supported.

She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters to them. Conversations cover relationship strain, parenting challenges, and career pressures. She also addresses substance use and other addictive behaviors as part of broader life concerns.

Ashley uses practical tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small changes. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to reframe thoughts and on client-centered skills to follow the person’s lead. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.

Sessions also explore emotions and attachment needs when relationships are a source of pain. Techniques from emotionally-focused work and the Gottman Method inform how she looks at connection and communication. The focus is on clearer understanding and workable next steps.

People come for help with trauma, anger, parenting stress, ADHD-related challenges, body image, and grief around family or life transitions. Ashley listens for what matters most and helps build realistic goals. She supports steady progress rather than quick fixes.

To begin, she asks questions about the current struggle and what a better week would look like. From there she and the client pick practical strategies to try between sessions. The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

How Ashley’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead. The therapist reflects feelings and priorities so each session centers on what feels most urgent to the client. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to sort through emotions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and tests small experiments to change them. It’s useful for anxiety, low mood, and addressing unhelpful habits by practicing new ways of thinking and acting between sessions.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name the emotions beneath relationship struggles. It is helpful when connection, attachment, or hurt feelings are part of the problem and the goal is clearer communication and understanding.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most practical, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. That collaborative process guides which techniques are used in session.

Confirm the current session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific online or in-person options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time. Talk with the therapist about what will work best for scheduling and how to structure sessions around everyday life.