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Trauma Processing & Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
Accelerated Resolution Therapy is one of Ashley's primary tools for trauma. It is a body-based, image-driven approach that helps clients metabolize what they have been carrying without having to re-tell or re-live it. It works faster than most people expect, and reaches places that years of talk therapy sometimes cannot. Ashley uses ART for trauma, PTSD, addiction, grief, and the chronic stress patterns that form when the nervous system has been on alert for too long.
Art Therapy as Clinical Depth Work
Ashley holds a dual master's in art therapy and clinical mental health counseling, which means art in her practice is a clinical tool, not a creative exercise. The process of making becomes a window into what clients cannot yet say. Image, symbol, and material carry emotional information that language often obscures. For clients who have felt unseen or misunderstood in traditional therapy, this work often opens something new.
Addiction & Recovery
Ashley understands addiction as a story about pain. Her work with clients in active use, early recovery, or long-term sobriety focuses on what drove the escape, and what is needed to replace it with something real. She brings both clinical precision and genuine compassion to this work, without judgment or a script.
Somatic & Body-Based Work
Ashley draws on somatic approaches throughout her clinical practice, helping clients build awareness of how the nervous system holds and responds to experience. This work supports clients who are stuck in patterns of hypervigilance, shutdown, or chronic stress that talk therapy alone has not been able to resolve.
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Care
Ashley's work with the LGBTQIA+ community is longstanding and deeply informed, built on genuine investment in identity, safety, and care that does not require clients to educate their therapist.
Specialties
Psychotherapist & Trauma Specialist
Ashley Guerrera
MAATC, LPC, ATR
Somatic trauma processing and creative therapy for clients stuck in the space between knowing and actually changing.
Ashley works with people who have run out of words. And with people who never had them to begin with. Clients who have done years of work and still feel stuck. Clients who have never quite been able to name what is wrong, only that something is. And clients who have known, somewhere, what needs to be looked at but have not yet found a space safe enough to say it out loud. Her work begins exactly there: in the space between insight and actual change, between the thing that happened and the life that is still being shaped by it.
She creates a different kind of entry point. Through art therapy and somatic trauma processing, Ashley helps clients access what the mind has learned to protect. The parts that do not respond to logic. The parts that live in the body long after the story has been told. Her presence in the room is warm, grounded, and unhurried. Clients describe feeling genuinely seen, often for the first time.
Ashley brings particular depth to trauma and addiction work, understanding both as responses to pain that made sense once, and no longer have to run the show. Her work helps clients move through what has been stored rather than simply managing around it, building the kind of internal safety that makes lasting change possible.
Most of what drives people does not have a name. It lives in the body, in image, in the thing that keeps happening before you understand why. My work begins there.
Ashley Guerrera, MAATC, LPC, ATR
Professional Experience
Ashley brings over a decade of clinical experience across some of the most demanding settings in behavioral health, working with children, adolescents, adults, families, and older adults across a wide range of presentations including trauma, addiction, eating disorders, personality disorders, anxiety, depression, and serious illness. She currently holds a leadership position at Newport Academy, a nationally recognized program for adolescent mental health and substance use treatment.
Her work with the LGBTQIA+ community is longstanding and deeply informed, built on genuine investment in identity, safety, and care that does not require clients to educate their therapist.
MA in Art Therapy & Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Dual Degree) — Albertus Magnus College
BA in Studio Art, Art Therapy Concentration — Albertus Magnus College
Licensed Professional Counselor — Connecticut
Registered Art Therapist (ATR)
Trained specialist in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
Trained and competent in ACT, DBT, CBT, and ABFT
Ongoing training in somatic and body-based approaches
Pursuing Reiki certification