Ashley Groshek, MA LMFT

Ashley Groshek (they/them) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has been working in the mental health field their entire adult life. They are a white queer person and identify as genderqueer, disabled, neurodivergent, and a widow. They are a gender and sexuality specialist working primarily with fellow members of the LGBTQIA+ community, neurodivergence (ADHD and autism), trauma, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and disability from a social justice lens. They are passionate about working with tweens and teens, families, queer couples, and polyamory. They serve clients from 6th grade and up, including young adults and adults.

Ashley believes it is important to meet clients where they are and explore where they want to go. They believe that creating a path to becoming your most authentic self is one of the most rewarding and challenging acts a person can do for themselves. Ashley is honored to be a part of this process with their Client's.

Ashley not only works with individuals, but their families as well. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, they believe that it is important that clients include the systems they belong to and interact with when making changes, be it family of origin, chosen family, and/or local, national, and world-wide systems that impact clients’ lives.

In session, Ashley incorporates different techniques, such as Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Talk therapy, Group therapy, and Animal-Assisted Interventions. Ashley has a therapy partner, a Labrador Retriever named Jenga, who is part of their practice. Jenga is Ashley's service dog and is with them in all therapy sessions.

Their goal when working with families in family therapy is to help them learn to be emotionally available to one another and for family members to create meaning together. Ashley is fully trained in Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT). Ashley uses their training to help families learn how to co-regulate with each other during conflict, and then come back and reconnect after conflict to co-create meaning. So many people spend their lives self-regulating that they forget how to co-regulate, essential in being a part of a family system.

Ashley is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), their main modality for working through trauma. ART is a therapy technique that uses eye movements to help rewire neural pathways in the brain as a way to process and move through trauma. Ashley is also on the Foster Adopt Minnesota Therapist list.

Ashley looks forward to meeting you and provides a warm meet-and-greet to all clients.