Ashley Barrett

Ashley Barrett is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Missouri (MO LMFT 2021001600) who creates a safe, supportive space where clients can feel heard and understood. With 8 years of clinical experience and two decades working with young people, she approaches complex life challenges with patience and practical care.

She works collaboratively with people experiencing depression, anxiety, stress, shame, or self-critical thinking, helping them explore the roots of these emotions and find concrete ways to make daily life more manageable. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and nonjudgmental, focused on building self-compassion, emotional resilience, and clearer self-understanding.

Ashley has a particular focus on teen and adult women coping with hormonal health issues such as premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), premenstrual exacerbation (PME), peripartum depression, and related anxiety. She uses a holistic lens that considers relationships and environmental factors, and when useful she involves partners or family members to strengthen support systems.

Her practice also addresses addictions, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting, career transitions, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and LGBT-related matters. Ashley identifies as a female therapist who is gay, non-religious, and politically liberal, and she brings that perspective to a collaborative therapeutic process.

She emphasizes connection as a path toward healing and offers evidence-based, practical tools to help clients feel more grounded and in control. Reaching out for help takes courage, and Ashley aims to walk alongside clients as they work toward healing, growth, and a life that feels more like their own.