Ashleigh Brown
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday challenges
About Ashleigh
Ashleigh Brown offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief or relationship strain. She writes in a plain, calm way and aims to help clients make small, useful changes. She is introduced as Ashleigh Brown and brings six years of experience to her practice in the United Kingdom.
Ashleigh draws on a psychological background to tailor therapy to each person's needs. She uses methods that focus on thoughts, emotions and behaviour so people can cope better day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions typically involve talking through what matters, practising new skills and finding workable steps forward. She works with issues such as trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. Addictions, bipolar disorder and ADHD are also within her areas of focus, along with intimacy-related concerns and communication problems.
Ashleigh names several approaches she uses, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. She adapts these methods depending on each person's goals and preferences rather than applying a single technique to everyone. She is a BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP, which reflects her professional affiliation.
Sessions are offered in English and international clients can be supported. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability. Ashleigh aims to help people find practical ways to cope, rebuild confidence and manage life changes.
Her work focuses on straightforward, collaborative steps that fit into everyday life rather than specialised labels or jargon.
What Ashleigh works with
How Ashleigh works
Listed by Ashleigh among the ways they work.
Listed by Ashleigh among the ways they work.
Listed by Ashleigh among the ways they work.
Listed by Ashleigh among the ways they work.
Listed by Ashleigh among the ways they work.
Listed by Ashleigh among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Ashleigh uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as part of her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression and major life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and teaches practical techniques to reduce distress and improve functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each client to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative discussion rather than a set plan imposed from the start.
If you are considering online therapy, check which session options the therapist is currently offering before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a person's routine. Some formats are also useful when video is difficult - for example phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a shorter meeting can fit into a work break. Confirm the available formats so you know what to expect and how sessions will fit into your everyday life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
