Ashley Barkley, LPC

Ashley Barkley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who brings a long-standing commitment to working with children, teens, and families. She began her journey in counseling in 2004 and completed undergraduate studies at the University of Oklahoma in 2005 with a degree in Psychology and a minor in Philosophy. She later earned a Master of Education with an emphasis in Community Counseling in 2009, and she holds an LPC credential, which denotes training and authorization to practice as a professional counselor. Over the course of her career she has accumulated 13 years of experience working in a variety of settings.

Ashley started her clinical work focused on reunification efforts for children and families involved in the foster care system in Oklahoma, gaining familiarity with the court system and a strong interest in helping families parent effectively through complex situations. In 2010 she moved into school-based counseling, which deepened her understanding of how children and adolescents navigate social and academic environments and the challenges that emerge in group settings. Teens are a favored population for her work, as she appreciates the transitional dynamics between childhood and adulthood.

Her approach is holistic, attending to physical, emotional, spiritual, and social wellbeing, and her clinical interests include relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting, coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, grief, anger, self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. She also focuses on adoption and foster care issues, communication and family problems, self-harm, and young adult concerns, and she enjoys working with a diverse range of people and presenting challenges.