Ashley McCormick North, LMHC

Ashley McCormick North is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 24 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strains, addiction concerns, anger, and life transitions. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career stress, and bipolar disorder.

Ashley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, so work in sessions focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and actions. Conversations are practical and direct. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and tries out different ways of responding. That often means practicing new skills between sessions.

Her background includes long experience supporting people through loss and end-of-life concerns, and helping partners navigate early relationship difficulties. She has also helped adults adjust to aging, blended family dynamics, divorce, and caregiver stress. These areas are part of the broad mix she brings to sessions.

In therapy she helps people sort through anger and control issues, guilt and shame, and problems that come from family of origin or abandonment wounds. She also works with those managing chronic illness, cancer-related stress, and co-morbid mental health concerns.

Sessions emphasize concrete tools and clear thinking. Clients can expect a collaborative tone where they identify goals, try skills, and review what works. People who want straightforward, thought-focused work to handle everyday frustrations and recurrent anger often find this approach useful.

How CBT and online sessions fit together