Ashley Smith Heinrich, MA, PLMFT

About Ashley Smith Heinrich

challenging, and most of all, healing. I aim to build a working therapeutic relationship with clients, one in which you can practice vulnerability, feel safe setting boundaries, laugh, and advocate for yourself. My goal, as atherapist, is to work with individuals, couples, and families to enhance empathy skills, feel empowered, build connections, and restore (or build for the first time) relationships.

My greatest desire for you is that you get to experience hope and healing in your relationship with yourself and others. I see all concerns as systemic, we do not exist in a vacuum of only our close friends and family, but are also impacted by our history, the groups we are in, where we live, our political climate, the year in which we live, and so on. Because of this, my goal is to tailor therapy to you, you are the authority of your life, after all.

I am a person-centered therapist, and I hope to collaborate to recognize unhelpful patterns and work to shift those patterns into something that works with you rather than against you and your relationships through empathy and evidence-based practices. In tailoring therapy, some of the approaches I draw from are attachment theory, the Gottman method, restoration therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skills, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. My job, as a therapist, is to guide you through uncomfortable feelings (or comfortable ones) by sitting with you to process, introduce skills, and challenge you to practice those skills.

I completed my Bachelor of Arts in Interpersonal Communication from the University of Missouri where I found my passion for working to heal attachment wounds, family and relational dynamics, and how the systems we live in impact those dynamics. I later earned my Masters of Marriage and Family Therapy from Lipscomb University. During this time, I gained valuable experience providing individual, couples, and family therapy to clients facing a wide range of concerns.

In my spare time, you'd find me at my local pottery studio, gardening in my tiny urban garden, on the couch watching reality TV with my pup, Dream, at a local coffee shop chatting away, or anywhere that allows me to foster connection with friends and family.

Services offered

• Individual Therapy
• Couple's Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Virtual Therapy

Concerns I work with

Attachment Disorders, CBT Skills, Conflict Resolution Skills, Couples/Partners Therapy, Couples/Partners Therapy- Premarital, DBT Skills, Guilt/Shame, Grief and Loss, Life Transitions, Relationship Issues (Individual), Eating Disorders, Self Identity, Spiritual Issues, Parenting (Individual).

Additional training

• Therapy should be collaborative, restorative, fun, sometimes