About East Valley Family Therapy

Ashley Lynch Gaede, LPC, BCN

Queen Creek Office

Experience

Through her many years of foster and foster/adoptive parenting, Ashley experienced how trauma, attachment, anxiety, learning disorders, intellectual delay, Autism, depression, ADHD, mood disorders, and other mental health concerns affect daily functioning, relationships, and academics. Ashley is well-versed in IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), which defines the laws and accommodations that ensure children with disabilities receive what they need for school success.

Philosophy

Ashley has a great understanding of the human need for belonging. Humans are biologically wired to need connections/relationships with others for optimal growth and development. Often, adverse life experiences, inability to self-regulate our emotions, attachment difficulties, self-esteem, or other mental health concerns negatively affect how we interact with and respond to others. Such problems create challenges for building and maintaining those positive relationships that we need. Ashley works together with parents and their children to improve those relationships.

Traning in therapeutic modalities, such as EMDR, NFB, DBT, Sand Tray, and others, allows Ashley to help individuals suffering many emotional problems. She assists individuals in learning and implementing coping skills to self-regulate emotions, identify those experiences, circumstances, and thoughts that negatively affect daily functioning, and then process towards resolution for improved functioning and life enjoyment.

Credentials

Ashley (LPC, BCN) is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Arizona and is now Board Certified in Neurofeedback. She has over 15 years of experience working with children and adolescents with behavioral and mental health concerns as a foster, foster/adopt parent, and now as a counselor. Ashley earned a Master’s degree from Argosy University in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development from Brigham Young University.

Specializations & Training

Ashley specializes in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Sand Tray Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She is board certified in Neurofeedback (NFB), a non-invasive treatment that uses feedback to change current brain patterns into more efficient patterns. Neurofeedback provides symptom reduction for ADHD, Autism, anxiety, depression, learning disorders, and PTSD. It also improves one’s ability to better self-regulate their emotions.

Personal Life

Ashley loves the color red. Like, a lot! As a result, the couches in her office, her kitchen, and her house’s exterior paint are gorgeous red!

She readily admits her life is “a crazy train” with her large flock of chickens, 2 goats, 3 dogs, 2 hamsters, 12 adopted/3 biological children, and hubby coming and going. Straightforward and witty, Ashley loves water skiing and quilting in her spare time, if she can find any! She also loves a good cold Pepsi, but skip the veggies, please!

Rates for Ashley

$150 / 50-minute therapy session
Neurofeedback Sessions:
Initial Neurofeedback Intake (QEEG) + brain map after 10 sessions – $400
Ongoing Neurofeedback – $1250 for 10 sessions                                                                                10% discount if paid up front- payment plans available