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Ashley E. Santana

NCC, LPCMH, DVS

Ashley Santana is a Licensed Professional Counselor of Mental Health. She is ambitious in her pursuit to provide mental wellness to underserved populations in the Delaware community. Ashley has been providing clinical services in the state of Delaware for over 7 years with several community based, person centered, and strength-based programs that value the ideal of identifying and cultivating the clients ability to work through problems and increase resiliency. Ashley is passionate in her belief that the client is in charge of their own success. She stresses that working to give a client the tools needed to regain what has been taken through trauma and other difficult life experiences is key to finding this success.

Throughout Ashley’s career she has utilized evidenced-based and extensively researched psychotherapeutic methods to treat populations who have experienced domestic abuse, sexual assault, present and past life traumas, and more recently, perinatal and post-partum populations. Ashley’s focus at Dedicated to Women is to provide support in individual and group settings as well as connecting women to the right resources in the community. Treatment will focus on increasing the clients ability to improve their daily functioning, manage life stressors, process traumatic events, identify and utilize coping skills, and establish strong support.

Education

Valparaiso University- Masters of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling 2013

University of Delaware- Bachelors of Arts in Psychology 2011

Certifications

National Board of Certified Counselors

Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence- Domestic Violence Specialist

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Trained

Maternal Mental Health Trained

Professional Memberships

American Counseling Association

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