- Calm listening
- Skills-focused
- Mindfulness based
About Ashley
Ashley Longabaugh-Cantos is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with six years of clinical experience. She greets clients with warmth and a light touch, and she encourages anyone who is unsure to take the first step. Her practice centers on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and handling major life changes.
Ashley uses straightforward conversation and practical skills in sessions. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to help people notice what matters and take small steps toward it. Sessions include listening, gentle challenge, and concrete tools to try between meetings.
She has worked with people who have experienced adoption or foster care challenges, attachment issues, and blended family concerns. Other areas she supports include caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, eating and food-related issues, and codependency.
Ashley’s background includes time living overseas and life as a military spouse. Those experiences shape how she thinks about transitions, resilience, and finding purpose after big changes. She aims to make the therapy space respectful, nonjudgmental, and realistic about hard days.
Humor and pets are part of her approach when appropriate; clients may sometimes meet one of her animal companions. To begin, she asks people to reflect on goals and then works alongside them to build manageable steps forward.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small committed actions to create a more meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and codependency patterns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect. It teaches practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, useful for stress, low mood, and worry.
Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment through simple practices. It can reduce reactivity and help people calm racing thoughts during stressful times.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods together, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. This is a collaborative process that respects preferences and pace.
Please confirm current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives by cutting travel time, allowing shorter check-ins on hectic days, or offering video when being face-to-face is useful. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises for remote sessions so people can practice skills between meetings.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
6+ years
Credentials
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns are commonly addressed?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, eating-related issues, and codependency.
How would you describe the therapy style?
Sessions are conversational and practical, blending listening with hands-on tools. Methods include acceptance-based work, CBT techniques, mindfulness practice, and motivational interviewing to encourage small changes.
What is the therapist's background and experience?
She holds a Florida LMHC credential and has six years of clinical experience. Her history includes work with people from difficult situations and experience living overseas as a military spouse.
Where is the therapist licensed and practicing?
The counselor is a Florida licensed mental health counselor, listed as FL LMHC, and practices from Florida.
Are sessions available in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with people outside the United States?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to start therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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