Ashley Longabaugh-CantosLMHC

Ashley Longabaugh-Cantos is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with six years of clinical experience. She greets clients with warmth and a straightforward approach. She encourages people to notice the small steps they already take toward feeling better and to bring those into sessions.

Ashley helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and eating or food-related issues. She addresses communication problems, codependency, control issues, and the fallout from divorce or separation.

Her work combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, client-centered ideas, and motivational interviewing. In practice that means clear, practical conversations, goal-focused steps, and attention to values and day-to-day patterns. Sessions are conversational and aim to leave people with doable options between meetings.

Ashley draws on broad experience with people who have faced difficult situations and big changes. That background informs a calm, patient style and an effort to find moments of light during hard times. She sometimes uses gentle humor and, occasionally, a pet will join the session.

If you want to get started, follow the site’s booking steps to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.

Approaches that translate to online work

Ashley uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that fit talk-based sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their values and take small actions in line with those values, which is useful for anxiety and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and helps people test and change unhelpful thinking and routines.

She also draws on client-centered ideas, focusing on listening and responding to what each person brings. That means figuring out together which approach or mix of approaches feels most useful. Determining the best fit is a collaborative process shaped by the person’s needs, goals, and preferences.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also offers flexibility in how people choose to participate while the therapist and client decide on the methods and tools that work best for their goals.