Ashton Stubblefield

Clinical Mental Health Counseling M.S. candidate with more than 700 hours of supervised clinical experience providing individual counseling, comprehensive assessment, crisis intervention, treatment planning, and community-based behavioral health services. Experienced supporting children, adolescents, and adults presenting with anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression, trauma-related concerns, substance use disorders, relationship concerns, and serious mental illness. Applies CBT, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, person-centered counseling, and trauma-informed care under clinical supervision.

Builds collaborative therapeutic relationships, coordinates effectively with multidisciplinary teams, and supports recovery-oriented goals. Planning to pursue Florida Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern registration following degree completion and relocation.

Counseling Intern - Phoenix Rising Behavioral Healthcare & Recovery

(2026-01)

• Provide supervised outpatient counseling to children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety disorders, OCD, depression, trauma-related concerns, substance use disorders, relationship concerns, and serious mental illness.
• Conduct biopsychosocial assessments, mental status examinations, suicide risk assessments, diagnostic formulation under supervision, and individualized treatment planning.
• Use CBT, ERP for OCD, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, person-centered counseling, psychoeducation, and trauma-informed interventions under clinical supervision.
• Apply ERP principles through collaborative exposure planning and response prevention strategies to address compulsive behaviors and avoidance under clinical supervision.
• Coordinate care with prescribers, case managers, supervisors, and other members of the multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Maintain timely, accurate, and Medicaid-compliant clinical documentation in NextGen EHR.
• Designed and facilitated an original 10-week psychoeducational self-esteem group featuring structured curriculum, therapeutic activities, and homework addressing self-worth, boundaries, assertive communication, emotional regulation, and resilience.
• Participate in weekly individual and group supervision to strengthen diagnostic formulation, case conceptualization, treatment planning, and ethical clinical practice.

Case Manager / Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment (CPST) - Phoenix Rising Behavioral Healthcare & Recovery

(2025-12)

• Manage a community-based caseload of approximately 30 adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring behavioral health needs.
• Coordinate behavioral healthcare, psychiatric services, housing, disability benefits, transportation, employment supports, medical care, and community resources to reduce barriers to treatment.
• Provide crisis support, safety planning, advocacy, psychoeducation, coping-skills coaching, and recovery-oriented interventions during office, home, community, and telephone contacts.
• Use Motivational Interviewing, strengths-based support, and collaborative problem-solving to improve treatment engagement and independent living skills.
• Collaborate with prescribers, therapists, medical providers, legal resources, social-service agencies, and family supports to promote continuity of care.
• Complete timely, detailed, Medicaid-compliant service documentation and track client progress in NextGen EHR.

Tack Assistant - Silver Creek Equestrian Center

(2024-10)

Pharmacy Technician - Discount Drug Mart

(2011-09 - 2017-05)

Master of Science - Clinical Mental Health Counseling - Capella University (2026-09)

Bachelor of Science - Psychology - Kent State University

Associate of Science - Kent State University