Ashley Longabaugh-Cantos, LMHC

Ashley Longabaugh-Cantos is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with six years of clinical experience. She works with clients across the lifespan—children, adolescents, adults, and families—and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, low self-esteem, depression, and significant life transitions. She also has experience supporting individuals facing trauma, eating disorders, intimate partner violence, non-suicidal self-injury, grief, and women’s concerns related to fertility.

Ashley brings additional expertise in areas such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, codependency, commitment and communication challenges, control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, eating and food-related matters, and feelings of emptiness. Her background includes time as a military spouse and two years living overseas, experiences that inform her understanding of major life changes, resilience, and the search for meaning and belonging.

Known for integrating evidence-based approaches and a warm, grounded presence, she values creating a respectful, judgment-free space where clients feel heard. She often uses humor to ease difficult moments and sometimes includes her animal companions Hugo, Clive, or Maxine in sessions. Ashley describes therapy as collaborative and supportive, centered on helping each person find practical ways to move forward.