Ashley Pace, Intern
Offering in-person therapy in East Nashville, with virtual therapy available across Tennessee. Deep Sliding Scale options available.
Reaching out for support can feel like a big, sometimes intimidating first step, and it takes courage. This space is about your journey, your experiences, your goals, and what healing looks like for you. My role is to offer guidance, provide a steady presence, and walk alongside you as you navigate whatever brings you to therapy.
Areas of Support
I work with adults ages 18 and older who are navigating life’s challenges, transitions, emotional pain, trauma, relationship concerns, addiction, and recovery-related experiences, and periods of crisis or instability. I aim to meet each person where they are and support them in building insight, developing coping skills, reconnecting with their own inner knowing, and moving toward a life that feels more meaningful, steady, and self-directed.
Anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and burnout
Depression, emotional lows, and suicidal thoughts
Stabilization after crisis or difficult life periods
Addiction, recovery, and healing from patterns of disconnection
Family, relationship, and trust concerns
People-pleasing patterns and boundary setting
Emotional awareness, nervous system awareness, and coping skills
Self-understanding, confidence, agency, and voice
Reconnecting with personal values, meaning, and inner wisdom
Trauma, grief, and loss
My Approach to Therapy
I am a student of Nonviolent Communication and am passionate about helping people access the deeper feelings and needs that often live beneath everyday experiences, conflicts, protective patterns, and emotional pain. I believe that when people are supported in connecting with their authentic emotional experience, new possibilities for understanding, healing, choice, and connection can emerge.
My work is also informed by trauma-informed care, nervous system awareness, somatic awareness, strengths-based practice, and ethically grounded clinical care. I am interested in supporting individuals in reclaiming their sense of agency, voice, self-trust, and inner steadiness.
I believe healing happens in a space where you feel respected, safe, and truly heard. My approach is warm, nonjudgmental, collaborative, and grounded in deep respect for each person’s lived experience. I see therapy as a partnership where we work together at your pace to better understand what you are experiencing, what you need, and what healing looks like for you.
I believe people already carry within themselves the wisdom, strength, and capacity needed for healing and growth. My role is to support you as you reconnect with your own inner knowing, voice, agency, and sense of meaning.
I approach therapy through a person-in-environment lens, recognizing that individual well-being is shaped by relationships, culture, socioeconomic realities, trauma, systems of power, and lived experience. I value seeing the whole person and strive to create a space where clients feel respected, understood, and empowered within the context of their unique life story.
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Person-Centered Therapy
Strengths-Based Approach
Supportive Counseling
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT-informed techniques
Motivational Interviewing-informed approach
Trauma-Informed Care
Crisis-informed and stabilization-focused support
Nonviolent Communication-informed emotional awareness and needs-based reflection
Somatic and nervous-system-informed awareness
Psychodynamic and humanistic perspectives
Phase I Brainspotting training
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My background includes experience in mental health, recovery, crisis response, and community-based support. I have worked with individuals navigating addiction, severe mental illness, psychosis, emotional overwhelm, suicidal thoughts, family stress, and complex life circumstances.
Areas of experience include:
Addiction and recovery support
Crisis de-escalation and stabilization
Experience supporting individuals with psychosis
Experience supporting individuals with severe mental illness
Suicide risk awareness and safety planning
Trauma-informed support
Anxiety, stress, and mood-related concerns
Grief, loss, and life transitions
Family systems and relational dynamics
Emotional regulation and coping skill development
People-pleasing, boundaries, and self-advocacy
Supporting individuals in reconnecting with agency, meaning, self-trust, and voice
More About Ashley
Ashley is a Master of Social Work student who believes that people already possess the wisdom and capacity needed for healing and growth. Her work is grounded in a deep commitment to social justice, truth-seeking, and walking alongside others as they reconnect with their own inner knowing and move toward a life that feels meaningful and self-directed.
Ashley is committed to ongoing self-reflection and caring for her own well-being. She recognizes that the ability to hold compassionate space for others begins with self-awareness and integrity.
Outside of her professional and educational work, Ashley enjoys spending time in nature, being with her family, and caring for her dog and cats. She is currently learning to play the guitar and the djembe and finds cooking a grounding and restorative practice.
Starting Therapy with Me
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Submit Contact Form
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Complete a Consultation
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Attend Your First Session
Once you're set up in our secure portal, you’ll schedule your first session. From there, we move at your pace, supporting you in a way that feels right for you.