Ashley Kile is a licensed creative arts therapist who is trained in attachment-focused EMDR

Ashley Kile, LCAT

Drama Therapist, Psychotherapist

Brooklyn, Cold Spring, and Virtual

No availability

Ashley approaches her work with curiosity and playfulness. She believes deeply in a collaborative and co-created therapeutic process and uses talk therapy approaches along with embodied/drama therapeutic and visual arts practices. Ashley is particularly attuned to adults coping with difficulties stemming from childhood, and how these can get in the way of living a fulfilled and connected life. Ashley is also well versed in supporting families navigating parenting challenges, and children experiencing school difficulties. As a drama therapist, Ashley believes that we all play roles in our lives and live within narratives that give meaning and purpose to our lived experiences, and sometimes these stories and roles are no longer serving us and need to be reworked.

Education and Certifications

NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT)

Pursuing certification in Attachment-Focused EMDR, Parnell Institute
MSW in Clinical Social Work, Hunter University
MA in Drama Therapy, New York University
Foundations of Family Therapy, Ackerman Institute for the Family

Specialties

Anxiety and Depression
Abandonment
Adults/Couples/Relationships
Trauma
Children and Families
Parent-Child Conflict

Pronouns

she/her

Favorite Resources

Parenting Approaches: The Parenting Style Quadrant

Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller, Understanding Childhood Difficulties as an Adult

Insurance Ashley can accept

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” —Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Inspiration

“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories… water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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