Meet Ashley
Updated: Mar 8
Founder, CEO of Hand Made Dreams LLC.
Best Selling Contributing Author/Partner 📚 + Therapist 🛋+ Consultant 📌+ Wife 👰🏾 + Mother 👦🏾👦🏾👧🏽. Vision Maker ✨
Ashley Witherspoon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is the Founder, CEO of Hand Made Dreams. Ashley is a North Carolina native who received her Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Masters of Social Work from the University of South Carolina-Columbia. Ashley gained clinical experience early in her career working with children, adolescents, and families who endured mental health challenges, physical/emotional abuse, and neglect. Ashley has worked in various settings from providing inpatient psychiatric treatment, in home therapeutic services, and interdisciplinary medical teams. Ashley has served on the National Association Social Work-North Carolina Board of Directors, provided clinical supervision for Licensed Clinical Social Work-Associate practitioners, and delivered day to day instruction as an agency field instructor for university program students. Ashley recently served as a mental health expert for WRAL-TV, an NBC - affiliated television station, providing therapeutic strategies for families to adjust during the Covid-19 Public Health Crisis and has contributed to various local and national publication platforms, including the national and digital media publication Youth Today. Ashley recently launched the Art Wellness Exchange which has been featured at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC) and the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL).
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