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Ashley Goodey, LCSW

  • Experience11 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Family
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Ashley

Ashley Goodey is a California-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience who supports people navigating grief, life transitions, and a range of emotional challenges.

Background and approach

She brings a calm, compassionate presence to sessions and helps clients explore how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact so they can find more stability and meaning. Ashley’s background includes extensive work with bereavement and end-of-life concerns, and she emphasizes that grieving is an individual, non-linear process.

Her practice also addresses stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and caregiving strain, compassion fatigue, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and ADHD-related challenges. Ashley uses evidence-informed methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs.

She focuses on building a collaborative dialogue that meets clients where they are and supports practical steps toward resilience, coping, and purpose. Ashley aims to create a patient, empowering environment where people feel supported while they process loss, make difficult decisions, or pursue longer-term personal growth.

She offers flexible online formats to accommodate different schedules and preferences.

Approaches for online healing and coping

Client-centered therapy focuses on the client's own experience and priorities, creating a collaborative space where the therapist listens deeply and follows the client's pace to explore values, meaning, and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and related behaviors, offering concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and reactions to life changes. Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to present-moment experience through simple practices that reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose and adjust strategies based on individual needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. That collaboration allows techniques to be combined or adapted over time as progress and preferences become clearer.

Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access care from home or other locations. These options offer flexibility in scheduling and communication style, enabling people to continue work on grief, coping skills, stress management, relationships, and other concerns in ways that suit their routines and comfort.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Ashley work with?
She addresses grief and loss, stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career issues, ADHD, and related life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and client-centered, combining empathy with practical techniques such as cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to help clients explore thoughts and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 11 years of professional experience, with extensive work in bereavement, hospice and end-of-life counseling as well as caregiver and family stress.
Where is she licensed and what are her credentials?
She is licensed in California as an LCSW with license number CA LCSW 82462 and practices from that jurisdiction.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are provided in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Clients can meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
What does therapy cost and how are sessions billed?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsGriefCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Also works with

Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesDepressionADHD

Additional focus areas

Aging and geriatric issuesCaregiver issues and stressForgivenessHospice and end-of-life counselingLife purpose

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused Therapy

Experience

11+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English

What Ashley can help with

Ashley Goodey works with clients on stress and anxiety, family conflicts, grief, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

Ashley works with grief and loss.

Ashley works with families.

Ashley works with those experience death and dying.

Ashley works with grief counseling, depression, relationship issues, caregiver stress, and family discord.

How Ashley approaches therapy

Ashley's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Ashley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in California.