Ashley Capone , LMHC

Ashley Capone is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. They also support people navigating LGBT issues, addiction, grief, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. Sessions are practical and focused on building skills that make everyday life easier.

Ashley uses DBT-informed work to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. That means clients learn concrete tools to calm intense feelings, speak up more clearly, and stay present. They combine these skill-building techniques with trauma-focused ideas when past hurt keeps showing up in daily life.

They bring an interest in how social and cultural pressures shape experience, and integrate existential and psychodynamic ideas to look at meaning, identity, and recurring patterns. This helps people reflect on why certain feelings or relationship patterns keep coming back. Solution-focused strategies are used when short-term goals and clear next steps are helpful.

Ashley aims for sessions that are direct but compassionate. Expect a mix of learning specific skills and talking through life events to connect those skills to real situations. The work emphasizes small, steady changes that fit into busy lives.

With eight years of experience, Ashley supports people working through issues like anger, sleep problems, career stress, ADHD-related struggles, and feelings of emptiness or shame. They welcome clients interested in addressing attachment and communication concerns and who want practical tools alongside deeper self-reflection.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Ashley integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy principles to teach concrete skills like emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. These skills are practiced in-session and assigned as manageable exercises to use between sessions, which can help with intense emotions and relationship difficulties.

They also draw on Trauma-Focused Therapy to address how past traumatic experiences affect current reactions and behavior. This work involves careful pacing, grounding techniques, and processing of difficult memories when the client is ready, helping reduce the ways trauma shows up day to day.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Ashley will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest strategies drawn from these methods. Together they adjust the plan based on what helps most, combining short-term problem solving with deeper exploration as needed.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow more personal interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging lets people send brief updates or get notes between appointments. These options make it easier to fit care into work, caregiving, and travel schedules while still working with licensed professionals.