Ashley Crank , LPC

Ashley Crank is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings five years of clinical experience working with adolescents, families, and adults. She earned a Master of Education with a specialization in Community Counseling from the University of Oklahoma in 2014. As an LPC - which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor - she has worked in a variety of settings including inpatient treatment, therapeutic foster care, and the school system, supporting clients across developmental stages and life circumstances.

Ashley has experience with a wide range of concerns, from depression, anxiety, and stress to anger and impulse control issues, severe neglect, abuse, and post-traumatic stress. She also addresses family and parenting problems, adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, and challenges common to young adults and women. Her practice includes support for LGBT clients and those managing mood disorders such as bipolar and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, as well as attention concerns often related to ADHD.

Ashley’s counseling style is empathetic and collaborative, meeting people where they are while offering gentle challenges when clients are ready to grow. Her approach blends Trust Based Relational Interventions, cognitive-behavioral techniques, interpersonal methods, and mindfulness counseling. She adjusts techniques as needs emerge and as the therapeutic relationship deepens, with the goal of supporting and empowering clients through meaningful change. Ashley values the courage it takes to seek help and views the work of therapy as a partnership aimed at improving life circumstances and relationships.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Ashley often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to help clients understand how early relationships shape current patterns of relating to others. This approach can be especially helpful for adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, and family relationship concerns.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that examines the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT is frequently used to address anxiety, depression, stress, and anger by teaching skills to reframe thinking and build effective coping strategies.

Mindfulness techniques are integrated to help clients increase present-moment awareness and regulate emotions, which supports work on trauma, impulse control, and mood symptoms. Throughout treatment Ashley collaborates with each person to identify the approaches that best match their goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds. Finding the right therapeutic fit is part of the process, and Ashley works alongside clients to decide what feels most helpful based on their needs.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and brief check-ins or ongoing work can occur through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to maintain consistency, fit therapy into busy schedules, and access licensed professionals from different locations while focusing on meaningful progress.