Hello, I’m Ashley.

Reclaim Your Journey, Find Your Path

If you find yourself navigating the complex emotions and challenges of religious trauma or deconstructing from a high-control religious environment, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to face this journey by yourself. I’m Ashley Noelle, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Orange County, with a special focus in supporting individuals like you through these transformative experiences.

My practice is trauma-informed and dedicated to helping clients who have experienced religious trauma or are seeking to understand and rebuild their lives after leaving high-control religious groups. I offer a compassionate, respectful, and client-centered approach, incorporating Evidence-Based Therapies such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to address and heal deep-seated trauma.

Whether you’re grappling with guilt, shame, identity issues, or seeking clarity and peace, I’m here to walk alongside you. Together, we’ll navigate this process, aiming for a future where you feel empowered, authentic, and at peace.

Ready to start your journey? Reach out today to schedule a consultation. Let’s begin the path to healing and reclaiming your life.

My Approach

What I Offer:

  • Safe Space for Healing: A judgment-free zone where you can explore your feelings, share your story, and work towards healing with a clinician whose understands the complexities and experiences of those processing religious harm.

  • Trauma-Informed Care: Approaches that respect your experiences and provide a foundation for safety and understanding. I am evidenced-based and can provide a mind-body approach to support clients.

  • EMDR Therapy: An effective, evidence-based technique designed to help process and integrate traumatic memories, reducing their emotional charge.

  • Tailored Therapeutic Approaches: Customized therapy that supports your unique journey of self-discovery and growth. I am comfortable in modalities such as CBT, IFS, EMDR, and Psychodynamic.

  • EMDR

    Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. A mind-body approach to reprocess traumatic memories and release stored trauma in the body.

  • 15+ Years Clinical Experience

    Trained in modalities such as CBT, IFS, with a base in implementing Attachment Theory through a Psychodynamic approach.

  • Trauma Informed

    A special focus utilizing evidenced-based modalities to address trauma, PTSD and C-PTSD.

Religious Harm & Spiritual Abuse

The clients I see have a rather unique life experience and work with me to process, cope with, and recover from religious harm. There is significant nuance in understanding the complexities and idiosyncrasies of a particular sub-culture. Together we seek to understand the effects of high-control religion, as well as receive support and guidance through the processes of faith deconstruction and/or redefinition. 

Often while navigating past experiences with high-control religion, and the challenges found living within rigid religious structures; clients find themselves at the intersection of relational issues, PTSD symptoms, trauma, anxiety, depression, estrangement, existential fear, philosophical struggles and intense confusion and grief.   

What I provide as a therapist is a space where your unique experience can be understood through a sympathetic trauma-informed lens.  Therapy is a collaborative process and my goal throughout our time together is to be a positive and stabilizing presence throughout the process of healing and growth.

Special Focus:

EMDR

Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapeutic treatment model that has excelled in treating trauma by addressing the mind-body connection and reprocessing the destructive ways trauma can be stored in the body.  While it was initially developed to treat clients with severe trauma and PTSD, EMDR has expanded to include and address attachment wounds, anxiety, panic, depression, and other issues that affect daily functioning, relationships, and general life fulfillment. The work of processing trauma can be difficult- living with untreated trauma and its effects is exponentially harder.  If you are interested in learning more about this particular treatment, please visit EMDRIA.com for additional information, or call for a free phone consult. 

Estranged Adult Children

I work with clients to support them through the incredibly difficult decision to enforce stronger boundaries within dysfunctional family dynamics.

Estrangement is not a choice any person makes lightly. It most often comes after years of abuse, significant harm, childhood trauma, and repeated patterns of dysfunctional relationships with emotionally immature parents and families. My goal is to support my clients in whatever relational closeness or distance is necessary for their health and well-being. I do not believe or support that estrangement or cut-off is the only option to managing relationships within difficult or dysfunctional family dynamics, but I do know that is some cases it is necessary.

Get in Touch!

Schedule a 15 minute consult call to discuss what therapy might look like for you.

FAQ

  • First things first, don't be nervous. We'll start with a free 15 minute phone consultation to determine your therapeutic needs (and if we'll make great collaborators). Here is where I answer questions and hear a little about what your are experiencing.

  • Individuals- $185 per 50 minute hour.

    EMDR - $205 per 50 minute hour.

    Prices differ on multiple hour sessions for EMDR.

  • Healing is not linear, and I cannot say how long your therapeutic journey may be. Some people reach and meet their therapeutic goals relatively quickly, or are looking for short-term support. EMDR is sometimes one of those short-term engagements. For others, therapy is a longer-term endeavor. What I can say is, if you are ready to do the work, I am ready to help and support you in accomplishing your goals.

  • While I am physically located in North Orange County CA, I do offer telehealth sessions for those unable to meet in person due to location or availability.