Ashley (They/Them) is a Queer, Neurodivergent, Fat, Black, Dominican-American, Nonbinary Femme.
They are a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Collage Artist born, raised and currently located in occupied Lenapehoking territory known as Queens, New York.
In their practices, they strive for vulnerability, transparency, and spaces where each participant can be their most honest self. Outside of Therapy and facilitation, Ashley creates collage art that helps them process and make meaning of life.
Education
Ashley received their Bachelors from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin as a Posse Scholar with double Major in Psychology and Gender Studies. Ashley holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During their time in graduate school, Ashley received the Minority Mental Health Practitioner Fellowship from the American Psychological Association (APA).
They are Licensed as an LPC and a certified K-12 School Counselor in the state of Pennsylvania.
They have the combined experience of youth work facilitation, and school based counseling, along with their work with the Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPoC) population.
“Oftentimes, all processing leads to Trauma Work.
All Trauma Work is Grief Work.”
Trainings
Sex Ed as Resistance, Inaugural Cohort, Ericka Hart
EFT (Emotion Focused Therapy), ICEEFT
Abortion Doula Training, Ash Williams of Abortion Doula Collective
IFS (Internal Family Systems), PESI
BIPoC Brainspotting, Phase 1 & 2, Grace Community Counseling & Social Services
EMDR in Color, Part 1 & 2, Rivers Edge Institute
DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), PESI

Due to various experiences, Ashley prioritizes personal education in their own time by making time to attend trainings and workshops by individuals with lived experience. As a clinician in a field shaped by White Supremacy, part of the process of decolonizing their work is unlearning history molded by Settler Colonial Imperialism and returning to experiential learning by those impacted by systems of oppression.
Ashley is a firm believer of returning Land back into Indigenous hands, the end of Borders, Freeing Palestine, the end of United States Occupations, Black Lives Matter, Harm Reduction, Abolishing all Industrial Complexes created by Police and Surveillance and more. These factors are always considered in the continuing of their education.
Land Acknowledgment
Ashley would like to acknowledge the Indigenous Lands for so called “North America.”
Ashley recognizes being born, raised, and educated on unceded Lenapehoking Land of the Lenni-Lenape people.
To learn whose land you are on visit: native-land.ca
If at any point you feel moved to help Ashley expand their knowledge through trainings, provide low cost community offerings or
process through art making, you can donate to them using the sources below.
Venmo: @AshleyLagrange | Paypal: paypal.me/AshleyL1218