Ashley Edwards (she/her)

It is my theoretical belief that borderline personality disorder is a response to trauma. You have learned to utilize unhealthy coping skills, and behaviors to survive traumatic experiences. I will help you learn about those unhealthy behaviors and implement new and healthy behaviors so that you can live a thriving and peaceful life.

Generational Trauma is when trauma is pasted down from generation to generation. This could look like poverty, to living in low economic neighborhoods that experience crime over multiple generations, to abuse (verbal, physical, and/or sexual) from generation to generation. I will work with you to identify the solutions to breaking the generational cycle, heal from your past abuse, and learn how to thrive in a new and enlightened way.

I have been providing trauma counseling in various settings over the course of 15 years. My theoretical position is that when we have experience trauma in any share or form, it changes the way we view the world. I provide a humanistic warm approach to identifying solutions to overcome the obstacles that your past trauma continues to resurface in your daily activities. Implementing techniques from CBT and DBT, so that you can over come your triggers and learn how to utilize health coping skills.

I operate from a solution focus mindset. Though I attempt to be brief with my therapy, my main focus is the solution, and how to overcome barrier and life struggles. We all get a little stuck sometimes and struggle with finding either the motivation or the solution to a problem. As we work together I will guide you with processing as you discover your own solutions to your problems.

Being able to cognitively process your trauma, and learn healthy behavioral changes through repetition. Learning about your triggers, understanding them, and learning to overcome them will be a focus as we work on implementing behavioral changes.

DBT has great interventions in mindfulness and grounding as well as radical acceptance of things that you cannot change. It allows you to learn new coping skills, how to change thinking patterns, and ground when overwhelmed. I will help guide you in learning these interventions and applying them daily.