Ashley O’Dell

they/them/she/her

AREAS OF CLINICAL INTEREST

• PTSD and the impact of trauma on the body and mind

• Somatic therapy

• Gender identity

• Suicide loss & grief

• Self-injury

• Mindfulness

• Suicidality

• Social justice

• EMDR therapy

• Artists’ mental health

Ashley is dedicated to providing affirmative care and has a passion for working with those healing from complex or acute trauma. In their therapeutic practice, informed by the nervous system and somatic therapy, Ashley strives to honor the ways in which our emotions and actions work to keep us safe, while also exploring how they may be disconnecting us from who and what we care about.

Sessions with Ashley often focus on present-moment awareness, a mindfulness practice, and incorporate the principles of ego state therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and EMDR, without shying away from humor and celebrating joy. 

Ashley earned their master’s degree in social work from Simmons University and has advanced training in the treatment of trauma, dissociation, grief, and suicidality. Relatedly, Ashley is dedicated to supporting suicide loss survivors through their volunteer work on the Grief Support Services team at Samaritans. Prior to their work as a therapist, Ashley trained as a fine artist and worked as a professional photographer, which is at the heart of their creative approach and non-pathologizing orientation as a therapist.