Ashley Hayes, LICSW

Ashley Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) licensed in the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. She brings seven years of clinical social work experience focused on helping people navigate difficult life transitions and the emotional challenges that accompany them.

Much of her work centers on supporting individuals facing serious illness, difficult medical decisions, and the practical and emotional fallout of those experiences. She also helps people learn tools to manage anxiety and depression and to cope with grief and loss, drawing on direct clinical experience in oncology care and on her own experience as a recent cancer survivor.

That combination of professional and personal experience has shaped a whole-health perspective in her practice - treating the mind and body as interconnected and attending to both when working toward balance. Her approach is client-centered, strengths-based, and solution-focused, helping people set realistic expectations and pursue goals they have identified for themselves.

Ashley places high value on the therapeutic relationship and works to create space where clients both feel heard and can begin to hear their own thoughts more clearly. She supports clients in quieting the mental chatter of stress and worry and in shifting less helpful thinking patterns by drawing primarily from mindfulness practice, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).