About

Dr. Ashley Tolleson is a Board-Certified Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in trauma-informed and creative approaches to counseling children, teens, and adults. She is the Founder and Clinical Director of the Tolleson Counseling Center in Marietta, GA, which focuses on helping clients with anxiety, stress management, trauma, and issues related to neurodiversity. Dr. Tolleson has developed a passion for counseling high-achieving girls and women looking to learn different ways to come back from the brink of burnout and challenge perfectionistic tendencies. She also hosts workshops on burnout and stress management for high-pressure industries and serves as a mental health consultant for the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association.

Dr. Tolleson holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Practice and an M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Georgia State University. As a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor, Dr. Tolleson has experience supervising both mental health and school counselors-in-training seeking to gain competency in counseling kids, teens, and young adults. She also holds the Registered Play Therapist credential, has extensive training in trauma-informed care, and regularly guest lectures in counseling graduate programs on these topics. Her published work on creativity in counseling has been presented at local, national, and international conferences and she was recognized as an Emerging Leader in the counseling profession by the Association for Creativity in Counseling in 2017.