Ashley Sutherland

Ashley Sutherland, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and owner of Creative Life Counseling, LLC who focuses on stress and anxiety disorders. She works with OCD and phobias and uses Exposure Response Prevention to reduce symptoms.

She founded Creative Life Counseling, LLC in 2011 after earning her degree from Loyola University Chicago in 2007 and beginning her career supporting pregnant and parenting teens in the Chicago public school system. After relocating to Salt Lake City in 2008, she worked with the University of Utah emergency department, the Neuropsychiatric Institute, and the foster care system and served as a mental health specialist for the Salt Lake City foster care system.

Ashley applies evidence-based treatments and is pursuing additional training in treating trichotillomania and hoarding disorder while adopting best practices for neurodiverse populations, including individuals with ADHD. She supports individuals through various life transitions, including coming out and navigating changes in relationships or belief systems, helping clients live in the present and look to the future while resolving past traumas.