About Ashley

I am a counseling and art therapy graduate, artist, and lifelong believer in the restorative power of creativity. My path into this work grew from the meeting place between two parts of my story: a deep relationship with art and a desire to sit compassionately with people in difficult seasons.

When I was a child, I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. Years later, I found my answer on a yellowed piece of notebook paper: “I want to be an artist.” My adult self had forgotten that dream, but my heart had not.

I was raised in a home shaped by creativity and compassion. My mother was an artist, and my father was a counselor. Their influence wove art and empathy into my life long before I knew there was a profession that could hold both. Personal experiences of pain, counseling, and healing eventually led me to art therapy, where I found a language for experiences that words alone could not always reach.

I earned my Master of Science in Counseling with an Art Therapy concentration from Pennsylvania Western University. Through graduate study and supervised clinical training, I developed experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults through anxiety, trauma, grief, relational challenges, identity development, life transitions, and emotional regulation.

My presence as a clinician is warm, reflective, collaborative, and grounded. I value the client’s existing wisdom and view creative work not as a performance, but as a way to notice, express, organize, and transform experience.

Education and professional direction

Master of Science in Counseling, Art Therapy concentration
Pennsylvania Western University, 2026

Based in Central Florida
Pursuing the next stage of supervised professional credentialing in mental health counseling and art therapy.