Ashley DeFreitas -LPCA

Ashley is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate with 10+ years of experience working with children and adolescents in a variety of settings including clinical, school, and extracurricular activities. Through these settings, she has helped children and adolescents build their self-esteem, manage peer conflict, and regulate their emotions. Through play therapy, she works individually with clients as young as 3 years old. Ashley uses a client-centered approach. She finds it important to meet her clients where they’re at during their healing journey. She values creating a warm, safe, non-judgmental space for them to feel comfortable and express themselves as they process their emotions. Her goal is to help her young clients navigate some of life’s challenges while building tools to manage. Ashely has led psychoeducational groups, such as executive functioning skills, life transitions, and managing anxiety and depression and is trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Play Therapy, and Risk and Connection. When she's not working, she loves to be outside with her dog, Hope!