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
Mental Health
Why Insight Doesn’t Always Change Behavior
You can fully understand a pattern — why you do it, where it comes from, what it costs — and still repeat it, because insight alone doesn’t change behavior. Old patterns are automatic and live in the nervous system, not just the thinking brain, and self-criticism tends to make change harder, not easier. Change is a practice built on reps and self-compassion, not a single decision. Dana Werner, LMSW helps clients bridge the gap between knowing and doing at CPA Counseling in Pittsburgh’s Robinson area and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Addiction
Addiction Therapy in Pittsburgh’s South Hills
Addiction therapy can address far more than stopping substance use. It can help you understand what alcohol or drugs have been doing for you, develop other ways to manage difficult emotions, and begin building a life that is no longer organized around using. Nicole Duley, LPC provides therapy for substance use and related concerns through CPA Counseling’s South Hills office in Pittsburgh and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Anxiety
When the Feeling Arrives Before the Thought
Sometimes your body reacts before your mind catches up — your chest tightens, you snap, you’re suddenly not okay and nothing happened in between. That isn’t a malfunction; the body’s threat response simply runs faster than conscious thought. Body-based (“somatic”) regulation skills — slow out-breaths, orienting, grounding — help you settle in the moment. Jaye Sobieski, MS, NCC, EMDR trained, works with trauma at CPA Counseling in the South Hills and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.