Ashley McGarity , LMHC

Ashley McGarity is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who brings five years of focused clinical experience supporting adults navigating attention and regulation challenges. She works extensively with people experiencing symptoms commonly associated with ADHD - including difficulty sustaining attention, trouble focusing, emotional reactivity, and anxiety connected to attentional struggles. Her practice weaves practical skill training with deeper therapeutic exploration so clients gain both tools and insight.

Ashley integrates cognitive behavioral techniques alongside Dialectical Behavior Therapy skill sets to build coping strategies for day-to-day stressors and anxiety. She also draws on existential ideas to help clients clarify their values, explore meaning, and pursue a more purposeful life. Relationship work is a core area of her practice, with emphasis on assertive communication, healthy boundary setting, identifying personal needs, and addressing attachment-related patterns.

She prioritizes each person’s individuality and encourages self-advocacy rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model. With clients, Ashley co-creates tailored habits, strategies, and skills that reflect unique preferences and life circumstances. By examining how past experiences shape present responses and addressing unhelpful beliefs and thought patterns, she helps people build greater self-understanding, confidence, and clearer ways of relating to others.

Ashley welcomes conversations with those ready to pursue authenticity and self-compassion and invites interested individuals to reach out and begin the work together.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Ashley McGarity draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and develop concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and attention challenges. Attachment-based work is used to explore how early relationships influence current relational styles and to build healthier ways of connecting with partners, family members, and friends. She also incorporates existential perspectives to support clients in clarifying values, purpose, and meaning when facing life transitions or questions about identity.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the collaborative process. Ashley works with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and adapts interventions over time so treatment aligns with what the client finds most useful and relevant.

Online therapy with Ashley is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. These options make it possible to maintain continuity of care across busy days, care responsibilities, or geographic limitations, while working with licensed professionals and therapists who tailor their approach to individual goals.