FAQ

I am always trying to optimize my schedule to do my best work, so that availability may change depending on my needs and those of my patients. However, I will most likely offer afternoon/evening times.

Each session is 45 minutes. If more is needed, we will adjust to meeting two or three times weekly.

I am in network with several insurance providers: Aetna, Cigna, Select Health of Utah, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Carelon Behavioral Health.

I believe it is essential to have access to a broader range of people than just those who can afford to pay out of pocket.

Please email me at ashley.mason@hey.com, and I will respond promptly with a time offer for a free phone consultation.

I have a 48-hour cancellation policy. Anyone who hasn’t canceled before the 48-hour window will be charged the full session fee. If you are late to the session, you will receive the remaining time in the therapy hour, which you can use as needed. Even if there’s only 15 minutes left, that time is yours, and I will be available.

I received a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. While in school, I worked in both substance abuse and neuropsychology settings. I’ve been a licensed clinician since 2011.

Upon graduation, I began working full-time at a substance abuse clinic, which I grew to love. While there, I joined an external two-year program in Object Relations (a type of psychoanalytic therapy) and became certified to work with the most authentic version of you that’s often hidden within.

While at the clinic, I received certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and facilitated the group for two years. I was promoted to program manager for the women-focused track, which was very invested in women’s specific needs and experiences.

I started my private practice in 2016, and I’ve been a solo practitioner ever since. It has slowly been revealed to me that my natural calling is to work with mainly women who are tired, over-functioning, overachieving, performing instead of being, making themselves small when they are actually SO BIG, and often recovering from narcissistic abuse – either from a parent or a partner or both.

While in private practice, I’ve become certified in Psychoanalytic work with couples and families and Transference-Focused Therapy (for narcissistic and borderline patients). I am also an expert in narcissism and can work effectively with both narcissists and those they’ve affected/injured.

I work with individuals 18 and older.

You will probably feel like I’m very quiet, and I will feel like I’m talking a lot. In the quiet, I am listening to what you say, what you don’t say, and paying attention to any changes in feeling and expression. I’m listening for the surface meaning in your words and for the underlying messages. I’m noticing how I feel when I’m with you in the office and how you appear to feel when I’m with you. This information tells me a lot about who you are, where you come from, and how you think.

I ask questions and make interpretations based on my expertise and on what I’m experiencing with you. These comments help guide us further into your struggles, enabling us to get to the root of the issue. Once we have thoroughly explored the core of the problem, we will begin discussing how you can make choices that help you break free from your cycles. We will also explore the obstacles you feel are standing in your way.

No. At most, I might ask you to observe something specific and report back to me on what you notice, but whether you do so is up to you. Whatever you might do with homework isn’t as effective as what we learn and discover when we are together.

Love this question. The best thing you can do is approach therapy with a solid commitment to attending your sessions and bringing as much of yourself as possible to the table for us to work with. If we’re only meeting once a week, sessions are already challenging in terms of covering all the necessary material within a reasonable timeframe. Therefore, if you start skipping them for this reason or that, we are at a significant deficit, and you will begin to feel like therapy just isn’t working for you.

C-PTSD can be described as the most common condition among patients who seek therapy. Almost no one ends up in therapy who doesn’t experience some version of it. So yes, I have successfully treated patients with C-PTSD for 14 years.

It’s up to you. You may find you have dreams you really want to discuss, or you may not. If I think we’re stuck or limited in our understanding of some dynamic, I might ask if you’ve had any dreams lately to help us along. Interpreting dreams is an excellent tool for learning what’s in your unconscious mind that might be affecting your behavior, but it’s certainly not the only tool.