Ashley Ward, LPCC

Ashley is a provisionally licensed therapist in Northern Colorado who contracts with Jennifer Ann Counseling to provide virtual services to clients looking for support and hope (even and especially in places where that feels hard to find.) While clinically Ashley would describe her style as relational and psychodynamic, what this actually means for you when you sit with her is that you feel like she really, really likes working with you--because she really, really does. 

Grounded in the belief that healing is happening from the moment the work begins, Ashley places emphasis on three key areas: what's happening in your story, what's happening in your body, and what's happening between the two of you. She also believes deeply in guiding the pace of therapeutic work based on knowing you, so if you're worried you won't be "good enough" when you come to therapy, you never have to worry about that here. Ashley will help you go at the pace that works for you, and won't get tired of being right with you, wherever that is.

Much of Ashley's approach has been shaped by her own {ongoing} experience as a therapy client--working through questions of identity, complex trauma, motherhood, attachment and relationships; learning what it feels like to be vulnerable and cared for; untangling her own story with a compassionate witness. She's been there and gets it.

Ashley works with adult women, with specialties in the areas of postpartum mental health, birth story processing, birth trauma, motherhood and identity, grief and loss, anxiety, and complex trauma. Within these issues, many clients are working toward goals of an increased capacity to tolerate a wider range of emotions, an increased sense of self-compassion, and a deeper understanding of the scope of their story.