ABOUT
Therapy Is about you—Your Growth, Your Healing, Your Life
You don’t need to be in crisis to start therapy. In fact, some of the most profound transformations happen when you simply decide it’s time for something to change. Therapy isn’t just about fixing what’s broken—it’s about building the life you truly want. It’s for anyone ready to heal old wounds, reduce anxiety, find clarity, and reconnect with their true self.
Therapy is an act of courage and self-love. It’s a space where you can be fully seen, fully heard, and supported every step of the way.
Experience Therapy Your Way: Online or In-Person
Whether you’re cozy at home or prefer a quiet space in our office, we’ve got you covered. With secure teletherapy, you can meet with us from wherever you are—on your couch, during a lunch break, or even while traveling. All you need is a device and an internet connection. Prefer face-to-face? Our warm, inviting office space is here to welcome you.
No matter where you choose to meet, therapy is about creating a safe and comfortable space for you to show up exactly as you are.
Your Journey Starts with a FREE 20-Minute Consultation
Taking the first step can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone. Our free 20-minute consultation is a no-pressure opportunity to get to know each other. Share a little about what’s going on, ask any questions, and see if we’re the right fit for your needs. If it doesn’t feel like the perfect match, we’ll help connect you with someone who might be.
Real Change Starts When You Take the First Step
After we connect and get you scheduled for your first session, you will have a little homework—but don’t worry, it’s not about grades! Our intake forms are designed to help us understand your challenges, goals, and vision for the life you want to create. These are the first steps toward helping your therapist build your personalized therapy plan—a roadmap to your healing and growth.
This step helps set the foundation of your commitment to change.
Your Custom Plan for Healing
There’s no one-size-fits-all in therapy. Together, we’ll create a plan tailored to your unique needs, whether that means managing anxiety, healing from trauma, navigating life transitions, or exploring your spiritual journey. It is also important to us to understand what kinds of therapies you are interested in and intuitively guided towards so that we may incorporate these methods into your plan. Our goal is to address not just the mind, but also the body and spirit, ensuring your path to healing is as holistic as it is effective. Your wellness plan will serve as your roadmap for healing and growth.
Together, we’ll ensure you have everything you need to thrive—not just survive.
You’re ready for transformation. Let’s get started.
Why Work With Us?
- Convenience: Access therapy wherever you are or visit our welcoming office.
- Holistic Approach: We look at the whole picture—mind, body, and spirit.
- Tailored Support: Your goals, your journey—everything is personalized to you.
- Empathy and Expertise: An entire team of Certified Clinical Trauma Professionals providing trauma-sensitive care.
- Gentle Healing: We work at your pace, honoring your comfort and readiness.
About Our Team
Ashley Ray, LCSW-S, CCTP, TIYT
Founder & Clinical Director
With over two decades of experience, I specialize in helping individuals navigate anxiety, trauma and spiritual crises through a holistic approach that integrates clinical psychology, somatic therapy, and ancient wisdom. I blend evidence-based eastern and western therapeutic modalities that stem from western clinical methods, eastern medicine, yoga, meditation, shamanic principals, indigenous healing practices, and energy psychology to support healing on all levels – mind, body and spirit.
My journey into this work began in 2003, when I committed to healing my own cycles of trauma and negative patterns through deep spiritual studies, meditation, and yoga. These practices, alongside my education in psychology, helped me reconnect with my intuition and reclaim a life of joy, inspiring me to guide others on their own transformative paths.
My professional career spans international and local clinical settings. While serving in the U.S. Peace Corps, I taught emotional intelligence to at-risk youth and trained local counselors, gaining a global perspective on resilience and healing. Back in the U.S., I led trauma and crisis intervention teams in mobile units, psych ERs, and correctional facilities, which enabled a refinement of my expertise in distinguishing between spiritual emergence and chronic psychiatric conditions.
At AUM Integral Wellness, I blend clinical therapeutic methods and ancient wisdom from a variety of cultures into a measurement-based care model. This scientific psychospiritual approach helps clients to find balance, trust their inner guidance, and transform their lives from the inside out.
If you’re seeking deep healing and meaningful growth, I’m here to guide you toward a life of balance, empowerment, and connection.
James ‘Mike’ Jeffcoat, LMFT
Holistic Psychotherapist & Meditation Instructor
I am passionate about helping men and women step fully into their personal power—unlocking a deeper sense of self-understanding, self-love, and empowerment. Through this transformative work, my clients break free from old, repetitive patterns and become the confident authors of their own lives. Time and time again, I witness this process create profound shifts, leading to lasting happiness, wholeness, and true inner peace on every level—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
My areas of expertise include:
- Stress and anxiety management
- Couples counseling
- Developmental transitions
- Spiritual counseling
- Embodied counseling
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy
I incorporate tools from positive psychology and integral theory into my work, offering a holistic approach that guides clients into a more authentic and empowered understanding of their lives. Whether you’re navigating challenges, seeking growth, or ready to embrace a new version of yourself, I am here to support you every step of the way.
Together, we’ll work to help you move beyond limitations and into a life of purpose, clarity, and fulfillment.
Mahnaz Wilson, LPC
Holistic Psychotherapist & Administrative Assistant
Life can feel overwhelming when challenges, traumas, and dramas take center stage. If anxiety, stress, or emotional patterns are holding you back, I’m here to help. I work with men, women, families, and teens to uncover and shift the thought and emotional patterns that keep them from living a happy, healthy, and thriving life. While you may not always have control over what happens to you, you can transform how you perceive and respond to those circumstances—and that’s where true freedom begins.
Using Somatic and Holistic Psychotherapy, I help clients heal the deep connections between the mind, body, and soul, often disrupted by life’s traumas. My specialties include:
- Trauma Recovery
- Depression & Anxiety
- Self-Esteem Building
- Chronic Pain Management
- Coping with Daily Life Stressors
In therapy, I’ll guide you through practical tools and techniques to enhance your well-being, improve relationships, and navigate life’s challenges with greater ease. Therapy is a collaborative process, and I understand the time and dedication it requires—both during and beyond our sessions. That’s why I’m committed to providing focused, personalized therapeutic support designed to meet your unique needs.
Your healing journey matters, and I’m honored to walk it with you. Together, we can uncover solutions, release negative emotions, and help you step into a more fulfilling, empowered life. Let’s get started!
Mukti Devi, TIYT, MA Clinical Counseling Candidate
Holistic Psychotherapist Student Intern, Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher
I feel called to work with human folks who are experiencing trauma, depression, anxiety or anyone who suffers with the thought that life was supposed to be more than this. Using somatic interventions and an integrative therapeutic approach, I help people learn to be the creators, authors and healers of their own lives.
I support people in returning to their True Self, a state of being unencumbered by social stories or limiting beliefs, a state of inner freedom. Using a humanistic and person-centered approach, I utilize the strengths that already dwell within an individual to draw forward their innate self-worth and self-love. Bringing a background in trauma-informed yoga therapy, rehabilitative pilates, and many years on a dedicated spiritual path, I offer allyship and unconditional positive regard for everyone I work with, no matter their current circumstances.
I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Contemplative Psychology and am completing my Masters in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling studies at Naropa University. Most notably, I received five years training while living in India in both Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita-Vedanta while living and serving within a monastic ashram community. I am a practitioner of Jungian Tarot, Shamanism, Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology. Forms of self-care that I practice regularly include meditation, herbalism/plant medicine, drumming, yoga, tai chi, cooking, poetry (haiku), and walking barefoot on the Earth. I live with my beloved partner and plant family.
I am under clinical supervision with Ashley Ray, LCSW-S while completing student internship hours.
Jessica Ball, LMT
Massage Therapist & Reiki Healer
Jennifer Bailey
Reiki Master & Soul Integration Facilitator
My approach to whole-life healing began when I was young. I was an intuitive girl that discovered the world of personal healing through my own physical, mental and spiritual struggles and traumas. I discovered that we all have an unending potential to awaken and heal. I later received specialized training in energy healing and successfully operated my own wellness business for over 5 years.
If I have he privilege of working with you one-on-one I will blend intuitive counseling, spiritual life coaching, energetic repatterning, Reiki, and meditation techniques into a special alchemy that supports you in balancing your energetic field and aligning with your higher self and souls journey.
I find it deeply fulfilling to have this opportunity to work with the tremendous team of practitioners at AUM, and be part of an integral and holistic wellness business that has service and integrity at its core of values.
Kelly Ray, RN
Billing Manager & Administrative Assistant
Love to travel, read, play games and entertain.
I have a science, medical based history, with that I have seen how the Holistic approach can help a person become the whole person by relieving stress, anxiety and feeling of non worth. Which can/may improve physical dangers of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, suicidal thoughts, any many more. I feel blessed to have found a place to work in my retirement years, AUM, that treats the whole person, one that cares about people: body, mine and soul. And that treats their staff with the same approach.
As Billing Manager I know finances can be a stressor at times. I am here for you to address, if you have concerns over your payments.
Life can sometimes be a Thunderstorm – AUM helps you find your Rainbows and gentle breezes.
About Our Partner Providers
In an effort to holistically support you with your health and wellness needs we partner with a select few providers in our community to ensure that your Holistic Wellness Plan at AUM is total and complete!
We have a strict list of requirements to be in our Preferred Provider Network:
- The provider must maintain a high level of communication with us regarding your treatment. This ensures a seamless, supportive and effective treatment process with your treatment team.
- Providers must provide trauma-informed care within a trauma-informed treatment environment
- Providers must value taking the time to understand your needs in a comprehensive and holistic way.
Kamal Albright, MD
Holistic Psychiatrist, Meditation Coach
Dr. Janae Stephens, PT, DPT, CLT
Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Pelvic Health Therapist, Certified Lymphedema Therapist, Certified Cancer Specialist
Mahogany Pelvic Health and Wellness is Dr. Stephens’s physical therapy practice that specializes in treating pelvic floor dysfunction, abdominal scar tissue adhesions, sexual dysfunction and lymphedema. Her focus is to give each patient total body health with one-on-one patient care with a custom treatment program that is unique, patient-centered, and individualized.
Mahogany Pelvic health’s mission is to provide the highest level of holistic, trauma-informed and specialized therapy to each one of their clients.
They have a passion for working hand-in-hand with healthcare professionals to help determine the need for pelvic floor therapy and overall wellness.
Their goal is to assist with diagnosis, provide effective treatment, and identify the tools needed to manage a home therapy program.
For more information about this practice: http://www.mahoganypelvichealthandwellness.com/
Heather Evans, DC, LMT, CLT-LANA
Doctor of Chiropractic, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Lymphedema Therapist
Heather is passionate about understanding her patients (frustrations and all) and takes every step possible to work with doctors and providers as best as she can to create a focused care team. She goes to great lengths to understand her patients and help them adapt during each stage of an advancing condition with more comfort.
Heather has at least 25 years of experience with the human musculo-skeletal and lymphatic systems.
Her work incorporates a core group of chiropractic and medical massage techniques, including manual lymphatic drainage and myofascial release, designed specifically to assist the body’s natural healing systems.
Heather works with patients with acute injuries, surgical recovery, foot pain, and Lymphedema or other chronic conditions. She also uses a variety of techniques to improve the elasticity of scar tissue by aiding the release of inelastic fascia.
For more information about this provider: https://bodyworkrx.net/
Our team is here to be of service, and we would like to provide you with a unique, individualized holistic healing and wellness experience.
Call us now to set up a free 20-minute phone consultation!
What Clients Have to Say
“I started therapy with Ashley a couple of months ago now and the time I’ve shared with her has offered me so much insight into myself and the world. Her wisdom in all areas and her way of communicating it, is mind blowing and something you can’t help but be thankful for. She has a beautiful way of making everything flow organically so things never feel awkward. In fact, it feels as though she’s just always in sync with you.
As someone living with mental illness and everything it comes with, I can say she’s had a profound impact in helping me actively cope and live with or move on from things.”
“I would recommend online therapy to anyone because I personally found it to be very effective in a short amount of time. I feel like I made much more progress in 6 sessions than friends have made in years of therapy.”
“One of the things I liked most about holistic psychotherapy with Ashley is that it was not hours of endless talk therapy analyzing details, and was instead about cultivating awareness, shifting perspective and building a set of tools/practices that could be put to use and be effective IMMEDIATELY!”
“A breakthrough I had in therapy was being able to face and sit with emotions instead of being overwhelmed by them and repressing them. I am better able to step outside the constant river of thoughts and not so easily be swept away by them.”
“I would recommend Therapy in The Park for anyone who needs a little extra help finding ways to cope with mental health challenges, stress, anxiety, etc. The environment was very relaxing. I liked learning mindfulness tools that I could apply in me ‘real’ life outside of therapy.”
“I have had experiences with maybe three therapists in the last 10 – 12 years. After being introduced to yoga about six years ago, I found great benefits in the yoga experience. Eventually, I felt that I needed to
seek out a practitioner that was a traditional trained therapist that also weaves into the therapy yoga philosophy and meditation. I found that here, with Ashley.”