SOUTH HILLS, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Ashley Spahn, MSW, LCSW
“If you find yourself looking for a genuine therapist who will listen, empower, and work with you — reach out.”
Ashley Spahn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at CPA Counseling’s South Hills office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. She works with individuals from age sixteen on anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and self-esteem, alongside life transitions, codependency, workplace stress, and anger. EMDR and ERP trained, with ongoing CEUs in both.
WHO ASHLEY WORKS WITH
Who she’s for
Ashley works with individuals from age sixteen through roughly sixty — high school, college, early career, and established adults. Individual sessions only. Her caseload is evenly split between men and women, and includes LGBTQ+ clients.
why work with Ashley
A partnership, not a treatment
Ashley describes the therapeutic relationship as a partnership — one where thoughts, emotions, and behaviors get explored together rather than diagnosed at you. Her stated mission is helping you unlock and reach your full potential.
HOW ASHLEY WORKS
Three protocols, warmth underneath
EMDR, ERP, and CBT — her three, kept current with ongoing training rather than collected once. Two of them are protocols most clinicians in the region do not hold. What stays constant is the approach: warm, empathetic, collaborative.
CONDITIONS TREATED
What Ashley treats – who Ashley sees
- Anxiety
- Depression
- PTSD
- OCD
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma
- Codependency
- Life Transitions
- Workplace Stress
- Anger Management
For PTSD and OCD
EMDR and ERP — two protocols, rarely held together
“The therapeutic relationship is a partnership.”
CARE PHILOSOPHY
Warmth and empathy. Strengths you already have.
Ashley describes her core mission as helping you unlock and reach your full potential, and her approach as grounded in warmth and empathy. The therapeutic relationship is a partnership — somewhere thoughts, emotions, and behaviors get explored together, in an environment that is safe enough to do it in.
The goal, in her words, is not just to navigate through your struggles but to celebrate and build upon the strengths and resilience you already carry. That is a meaningful distinction: the work starts from what is already working rather than from a list of what is broken.
Her current caseload centres on anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and self-esteem. Life’s complexities can feel insurmountable — her stated belief is that with the right support it is possible to emerge stronger and more empowered, not merely to cope.
ABOUT ASHLEY
Walking alongside you on your journey
Ashley Spahn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker whose core mission is helping clients unlock and reach their full potential. Her approach to therapy is grounded in warmth and empathy, and she treats the therapeutic relationship as a partnership rather than something administered.
Her current caseload centres on anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and challenges with self-esteem. Life’s complexities can feel insurmountable, but with the right support and guidance she believes it is possible to emerge stronger and more empowered.
Her three main modalities are EMDR, ERP, and CBT. She is trained and current in both EMDR and ERP, taking ongoing continuing education in each rather than treating them as completed credentials. Holding the leading protocol for PTSD alongside the leading protocol for OCD is an unusual combination to find in one clinician, and it matters because the two often arrive together.
In her own words: sometimes life can be overwhelming and we do not know where to start; if you find yourself looking for a genuine therapist who will listen, empower, and work with you, reach out. She holds an MSW from California University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Clinical Psychology from Kutztown University, has practiced since 2020, and sees individual clients at the South Hills office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
& ERP Trained
Both current, ongoing CEUs
PTSD & OCD
Two protocols, one clinician
Personalized Care Plans
No program commitments required
CONDITION GUIDE
Therapy guides from Ashley Spahn
Grief & Loss
Grief Before Goodbye: Hospice & Palliative Care Support
When a loved one is facing a serious illness or entering hospice, families often experience anticipatory grief — mourning while the person is still here — along with caregiver exhaustion, guilt, and complicated emotions. Palliative care focuses on comfort and quality of life at any stage of serious illness; hospice focuses on comfort when curative treatment ends. Therapy supports caregivers and families through the grief, the caregiving, and the goodbye. Haley Childers, LSW helps families across Pittsburgh’s South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Anxiety
What Is OCD, Really? It’s More Than Being Neat
OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) is a treatable anxiety-related condition made up of obsessions — unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that cause intense anxiety — and compulsions, the behaviors or mental rituals a person does to relieve that anxiety. It is not about being tidy or organized, and the intrusive thoughts do not reflect what someone wants. The leading treatment is ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention). Jessika Izzo, LPC helps adolescents and adults with OCD and anxiety at CPA Counseling in Pittsburgh’s Robinson area.
Anxiety
Why Do I Keep Overthinking Everything?
Overthinking is your mind looping on the past (rumination) or rehearsing the future (worry) in an attempt to feel safe or in control — and it’s a core feature of anxiety, not a character flaw. It feels productive but rarely resolves anything, and it steals the present moment. With support, you can learn to tolerate uncertainty, interrupt the loop, and let a decision be “good enough.” Dana Werner, LMSW helps people with overthinking and anxiety at CPA Counseling’s Robinson office in Pittsburgh’s West Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.