Practitioner record · Checked 9 Oct 2026

Ashley Cole has been in practice 7 years and is licensed in Tennessee. Ashley lists stress, Anxiety, family conflicts and career difficulties among 37 subjects on the BetterHelp roster.

Everything below is either quoted from Ashley's own BetterHelp listing, taken from public licensing records, or written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such. Nothing here is an availability promise, a review, or a rating.

7years in practice
37subjects listed

01 · Who Ashley works with

Ashley works with stress, Anxiety, family conflicts and career difficulties

Ashley lists 16 specialisms and 21 further focus areas. Specialisms are the subjects Ashley chose to list first, which is the closest a listing gets to “this is my actual practice”.

Specialisms
  • Stress, Anxiety
  • Family conflicts
  • Career difficulties
  • Depression
  • Coaching
  • LGBT
  • Relationship issues
  • Trauma and abuse
  • Grief
  • Intimacy-related issues
  • Parenting issues
  • Anger management
  • Self esteem
  • Coping with life changes
  • Compassion fatigue
  • ADHD
Also experienced with
  • Blended family issues
  • Caregiver issues and stress
  • Communication problems
  • Divorce and separation
  • Emptiness
  • Family problems
  • Fatherhood issues
  • Forgiveness
  • Guilt and shame
  • HIV / AIDS
  • Isolation / loneliness
  • Life purpose
  • Men's issues
  • Midlife crisis
  • Multicultural concerns
  • Prejudice and discrimination
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
  • Self-love
  • Social anxiety and phobia
  • Women's issues
  • Workplace issues

02 · In Ashley's own words

What Ashley says about the work

Reproduced in full and unedited - not summarised, not tightened, not rewritten in a house voice.

I am dedicated to helping my clients build bridges to a healthier, happier life. Are you going through a big change? Life calls us into constant change. Whether planned and joyful or unexpected and grief filled: changes in relationships; parenting; or career - they take their toll on each of us. Healing through grieving, stretching, adjusting, and growing can be blocked when you feel overwhelming emotions, when you are fearful and avoidant of what is to come, and when you simply don't know how to move ahead. I listen to, support, and teach my clients to help reduce anxiety, depression, and stress that comes with life transitions. I specialize in helping individuals make changes in the way they work, resolve difficult issues, take action and move forward with their plans. Maybe you feel you have reached a glass ceiling and want to move your personal and professional life forward, yet you don't or can't find the time and space to work ON rather than IN your business. I will work with you to process the changes, to cope when the hard times are upon you, and to learn skills to improve the daily choices that you make I know that the decision to begin therapy. To admit that you're not sure what comes next in your life, to imagine yourself in a better place takes courage, and I consider it an honor to help.

Ashley Cole, on the BetterHelp listing · read 9 Oct 2026

03 · What happens next

From this page to a first session

Ashley practises through BetterHelp, so the route in is BetterHelp's. This is that sequence, written by Maker Therapy from the platform's published process - not a description of Ashley's own practice, and not a promise about how quickly anything happens.

  1. A questionnaire, not a booking form

    BetterHelp opens with a set of questions about what you are dealing with, what you want from therapy, and any preferences on the therapist. You are not booking Ashley at this point.

  2. Naming Ashley specifically

    BetterHelp matches algorithmically by default, so asking for Ashley is a step you have to take. There is a field for requesting a specific therapist during sign-up, and you can switch afterwards from your account. Starting from a link on this page does not by itself assign you to Ashley.

  3. If the caseload is full

    You will be offered somebody else rather than put on a waitlist. Worth knowing, because it is easy to assume a match is the person you asked for.

  4. The first conversation

    A first session is typically history and orientation: what brought you, what has been tried, what you want to be different. It is also where the questions in the next section belong.

  5. If the fit is wrong

    Changing therapist on BetterHelp does not need a reason. A first session that does not click is common and is not a verdict on therapy. That option existing is the main practical difference between a platform and a private practice.

04 · Before you commit

2 questions worth asking Ashley

Built from what Ashley actually lists, so they are answerable and specific rather than generic. Maker Therapy's, not Ashley's - Ashley has not seen them and is under no obligation to answer any of them.

  • “How do you decide when someone is ready to work on a traumatic memory itself?”

    Pacing is the biggest safety question in trauma work. A clear, unhurried answer here matters more than any credential.

  • “How do you handle the gap between sessions if something comes up?”

    On BetterHelp this varies a great deal by therapist. Better to know the rhythm now than to discover it on a bad week.

05 · Practical details

Credentials and licensing

Credential
LCSW
Licensed in
Tennessee
Licence
TN LCSW 7255, MA LICSW 125275
Licence number
7255
Licence expires
31 Oct 2027
NPI
1700455847
Years in practice
7
Gender
Female
Languages
English
International clients
Not accepted
Listed since
15 May 2026

06 · Provenance

Where every line on this page came from

Ashley's name, credential, state, subjects, approaches and biography are read from BetterHelp's therapist roster, which Maker Therapy re-reads once a day; this page reflects the reading taken on 9 Oct 2026. The licence number and NPI are cross-checked against public registers.

The plain-English method descriptions, the first-session walkthrough and the questions are written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such wherever they appear.

Maker Therapy is not BetterHelp, does not take bookings, and has not met Ashley. There are no reviews or ratings on this page because we have no way to verify one. If you start therapy through a link here, we may be paid a commission - it does not change your price and it does not affect who appears here or in what order.

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