Ashleigh is a highly experienced Mental Health Accredited Social Worker and has worked within NSW health inpatient and community teams for many years.
Ashleigh provides holistic treatment to families with mental health and attachment concerns, focusing on relationships between parents, children and adolescents. Ashleigh enjoys working with a range of adolescent presentations and supporting young people in their formative years.
Ashleigh believes in the importance of establishing strong therapeutic relationships with clients and enjoys working with adolescents, children and adults through a variety of presentations including trauma- informed care, domestic abuse, grief & loss, depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder and relationships.
Ashleigh provides a safe and empathic space for couples to explore their relationships and applies a non-judgemental approach to couples addressing infidelity, emotional distress, communication or other varying relationship issues.
Ashleigh will be expanding her therapeutic modalities later in the year to include Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing [EMDR] but currently administers Cognitive Behavioural therapy [CBT], Acceptance and Commitment therapy [ACT], mindfulness- based approaches and some Dialectical Behaviour Therapy [DBT].
Ashleigh’s passion lies in the area of perinatal mental health, including antenatal and postnatal anxiety, depression and grief & loss surrounding stillbirth and miscarriage.
Supporting families through these tough times is crucial and Ashleigh has a history of working alongside families in an acute setting for over 10 years in supporting families through perinatal loss.
Ashleigh fits extremely well into out Hummingbird team due to her warm and friendly personality and passion & commitment to her clients.
