Hi there, I’m Ashley McHan.
I’ve been doing this work for a long time—18 years—and I still feel a genuine sense of gratitude that this is what I get to do every day. At the heart of it, I care deeply about helping people feel more at home in themselves. My background is in trauma and eating disorders, but you don’t need to identify with either of those to belong here. Many of the people I work with are simply feeling stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or ready for something to shift—even if they’re not sure what that is yet. I am here support you in navigating difficult life experience, change and adjustment to get you to the other side.
Therapy with me goes beyond just talking. I draw from approaches that support real, lasting change—not just insight, but integration. We work together to decide the approach that is best for you, utilizing mindfulness, somatics and therapies such as Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). With these resources, we can begin to address old patterns and beliefs (the deeper layers that shape how you experience your life) and ways of coping that no longer serve you to begin to move you in a new direction.
Through this work, you’ll gain new perspective on old challenges that can help you begin to connect to a deeper sense of knowing, of self-understanding, clarity in what you value and how you want to live. You’ll have have the opportunity to develop new skills to manage stress, heal your nervous system and build resilience and confidence in yourself and your ability to manage life’s challenges.
Together we’ll work to help your find your way back to yourself so that you can move forward, toward a new way of living, a more fulfilling life. So that you can feel more clear, aligned and capable of living your life as you truly desire. Heal your relationship with food, your body, yourself.
I’m here to support you.
What is EMDR?
I use EMDR because so often, understanding why we feel a certain way doesn't actually change how we feel, that we can have insight into a pattern and still feel unable to change it. This gap between understanding and actual change is where I've found EMDR to be so valuable.
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps us, and our brains, process experiences that got "stuck." When something distressing happens, it doesn't always settle the way ordinary memories do. It can stay held onto with the same intensity, beliefs, and physical sensations it had in the original moment. I use EMDR to help that experience find its place in the past, so it's no longer something that affects the way you live in the present.
One thing I appreciate about this approach is that clients don't need to narrate every detail of what happened for it to be effective. We move at whatever pace feels right for you, and I'm there throughout to help support and steady your nervous system along the way. Over time, we see the emotional intensity around a memory soften and dissipate. With this unhelpful beliefs like "I'm not enough" or "it’s my fault" begin to shift, and long-standing patterns in relationships or self-perception start to ease.
EMDR has become an important part of how I work because I've seen it help people reach places that talk therapy alone often can't.
Ketamine Assisted Therapy
Ketamine-assisted therapy combines the therapeutic use of ketamine, a well-studied dissociative medicine, with structured psychotherapy support. Administered in a safe, monitored setting, ketamine can temporarily shift rigid patterns of thought and increase neuroplasticity, creating a window where deeply held emotional material becomes more accessible and easier to process. Paired with preparation and integration sessions, this work helps clients translate what surfaces during a session into lasting shifts in daily life.
I use ketamine-assisted therapy in my practice because it offers a different entry point into healing than talk therapy alone. For clients who feel stuck in depression, anxiety, trauma, or persistent negative thought loops, the altered state of consciousness ketamine induces can help loosen the grip of the default, self-protective mind — allowing for new insight, emotional release, and a felt sense of connection that's sometimes hard to reach through conversation alone. While some look to psychedelics as a miracle cure, I ensure this is not the case. Ketamine supports the work we do, it doesn’t do the work for us. It can act as a catalyst for change, it can support growth and insight, it can help us connect to possibility where we have lacked hope, but we are still the agents of our own change.