Ashley Underhill has a masters in counselling specializing in art therapy. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor, Counselling Therapist, Certified Art Therapist, and is currently completing her dual certification as an Equine Professional and Mental Health Professional through the Professional Association of Equine Facilitated Wellness Pro-EFW.
Ashley also has a certified therapy dog, Phil, also known as Dr. Phil, who loves participating in sessions with adults, youth, and children.
Throughout her years as a therapist, Ashley’s areas of specialization focused on working with populations affected by domestic violence, PTSD, complex trauma, high conflict separations, and ADHD. Her client population includes children, youth, and adults.
Ashley has 1000s of hours working with equines in ranching, horsemanship, training, instructional, and recreational ways. Therefore, the integration of horses within her therapy practices was a natural process.
In addition to integrating horses and her therapy dog within sessions, Ashley works from an attachment based framework and integrates multiple modalities such as internal family systems, emotion-focused, compassion-focused, art therapy, play-based interventions, and solution-focused therapy.
She feels honored to be welcomed into her client’s experiences and be a part of their movement towards hope and healing.