Ashley Shiff
Compassionate, strengths-based support for change
MD, LCSW-C Maryland
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Ashley
Ashley Shiff, MD, LCSW-C, is a Maryland-based therapist with 12 years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
She approaches each person as the expert of their own story, building on existing strengths to address the challenges that brought them to therapy. She encourages clients to view the first step toward support as an act of courage and offers steady guidance through change.
Her work blends practical, goal-oriented methods with empathic listening and exploration of underlying patterns. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and emotionally focused techniques to help clients understand thoughts and feelings, develop coping skills, and improve emotional connections.
Ashley also integrates psychodynamic and solution-focused perspectives when useful to uncover long-standing influences and to set clear, achievable goals. Clients meet with a licensed professional who respects their experience and collaborates on treatment plans that fit individual needs and preferences.
Ashley provides care in English and practices under the credentials MD and LCSW-C, license number 09254 in Maryland.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support
Ashley often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills that reduce distress in daily life. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a collaborative space where the client’s perspective and choices guide the work, emphasizing empathy and validation to strengthen self-understanding.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Ashley approaches that decision collaboratively. She listens to each person’s needs and goals, discusses which methods may be most helpful, and adjusts strategies as treatment progresses to ensure the plan matches preferences and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage with care, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit appointments into busy schedules and to continue work between sessions, supporting steady progress while accommodating different communication styles and life demands.
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Areas of expertise
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
12+ years
Licensed
Maryland
Languages
English