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LMFT

Ashley Barrett, LMFT

  • Experience8 years
  • LocationMissouri
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Grief
  • LanguagesEnglish
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About Ashley

Ashley Barrett is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with eight years of clinical experience and two decades of work with young people. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore difficult emotions and start making practical shifts.

Background and approach

Her practice emphasizes building self-compassion, emotional resilience, and clearer self-understanding so clients can move through life’s challenges with more agency. Barrett addresses a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem struggles, addictions, and ADHD.

She also works with relationship and intimacy issues, career and parenting concerns, and complex themes such as attachment wounds, family of origin dynamics, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, using evidence-based tools to help people rewrite unhelpful internal narratives and develop sustainable coping strategies.

Clients can expect an approach that balances empathy with practical interventions, and that considers how relationships and environmental factors influence mental health. Barrett’s Missouri-based LMFT credential (MO LMFT 2021001600) anchors her clinical practice, and she offers multiple online session formats to fit different needs and schedules.

Evidence-Informed Care Delivered Online

Two evidence-based approaches commonly used in Ashley's work are practical cognitive techniques and relationally focused interventions. Cognitive approaches help identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and develop concrete coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Relationally focused methods examine attachment and family dynamics to improve communication, strengthen support systems, and address patterns that contribute to distress.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Ashley partners with clients to explore what feels most helpful, adjusting methods over time based on the person's needs, goals, and preferences rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for clients balancing work, caregiving, or mobility limitations. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access support from Missouri without extra travel, while still allowing for interactive work and skill-building between sessions.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Ashley commonly help with?
She works with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem struggles, addictions, relationship and intimacy problems, and ADHD among other concerns.
What is Ashley's therapeutic style like?
The approach is warm, down-to-earth, and collaborative, focusing on empathy alongside practical, evidence-based tools to help clients make meaningful changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Ashley has eight years of experience as a licensed therapist and has worked with young people for roughly two decades in related settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Missouri with license number MO LMFT 2021001600.
Does she provide services in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English only, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available for online work?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyGriefSelf esteemDepression

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBody imageChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCommunication problemsFamily of origin issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMood disordersPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Experience

8+ years

Licensed

Missouri

Languages

English