Your life looks exceptional on paper. Now let's make it feel that way on the inside.
Boutique psychotherapy and strategic support for high-functioning professionals navigating life disruptions. We move beyond traditional "insight" to provide the tools and high-touch care you need to get back to your work, your family, and yourself.
Personalized Boutique Care • Life Transition Strategy • Collaborative Peer Groups • Clinical Education Vault • Psychedelic-Assisted Intensives
Beyond the Narrative: Why Self-Awareness Isn't Restoration
As a high-achiever, you are likely articulate and self-aware. You can describe the "story" of your stress with clinical precision, yet the internal "glitch" remains.
Traditional therapy often stops at the narrative—but for those in high-stakes roles, insight without integration is just more noise.
At Blue Sage, we don’t just manage your symptoms; we provide a high-touch system designed for your recovery.
By combining individual deep-dives with bi-weekly skills groups and secure touchpoints, we move past "just talking" and work directly with your nervous system to resolve the roots of burnout and disruption.
Watch the video to learn how we move beyond venting and into the strategic work that definitively changes your life.
Beyond Insight: Aligning Your Internal World with Your External Success
You’ve built a life that works on paper.
My goal is to ensure your nervous system supports that success rather than taxing it.
At Blue Sage, we move past "venting" to resolve the specific patterns that hold you back from full presence in your work and your family.
Strategic Root-Cause Resolution:
• High-Functioning Anxiety: Transition from "white-knuckling" your daily achievements to a state of intuitive, sustainable calm. We move the needle from performative success to internal ease.
• Biological "Glitch" Resolution: Safely identifying and clearing the neurological survival patterns (Stored Trauma/PTSD) that create "static" in your decision-making and presence.
• Relational Strategy & Boundaries: Ending the exhaustion of people-pleasing and "carrying it all." We build the relational mastery needed to protect your energy and end professional self-sabotage.
• Operational Vitality: Moving beyond the "fog" of functional depression. We focus on reclaiming your core vitality so you can show up for your leadership roles and your loved ones with genuine energy.
• Navigating Life Disruption: Specialized support for professionals facing high-stakes pivots—such as divorce or career shifts—to ensure the disruption doesn't become a permanent derailment.
How We Work - The Restoration System
For the high-achiever, understanding the "why" is the easy part. But for most of my clients, insight has become a defense mechanism—a way to intellectually manage the "tsunami" of nerves beneath the surface while maintaining a life that looks perfect on paper.
At Blue Sage, we treat your restoration like a high-stakes project. We move beyond traditional, open-ended talk therapy to provide a structured, multi-modal system that resolves the root-cause "glitches" in your nervous system.
The Four Pillars of Your Membership:
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Strategic Individual Deep-Dives: We move past "venting" to focus on Root-Cause Resolution. Using neuro-somatic techniques, we safely process the biological patterns that traditional therapy misses, clearing the path for you to return to your family and work with genuine clarity.
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Integrative Peer Strategy Groups: High-performance can be isolating. Our bi-weekly skills group provides a confidential space to practice Relational Strategy with peers who understand your world—ending cycles of people-pleasing and professional self-sabotage.
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The Clinical Resource Vault: Your healing shouldn't wait for our next appointment. You receive 24/7 access to a curated library of nervous system regulation tools, professional-grade meditations, and "on-demand" education to maintain momentum between sessions.
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Daily Momentum Support: For the "temporarily derailed" professional, support needs to happen in real-time. My boutique model includes secure messaging checked once daily, providing a consistent "safety net" to help you integrate new skills into your high-pressure daily life.
About Ashley Francis: A Somatic Strategist for the High-Functioning Professional
With nearly 20 years of experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I specialize in working with the "expert storytellers." You are polished, articulate, and likely highly successful—the person who looks exceptional on paper but is navigating a silent "tsunami" of burnout or life disruption within.
Most of my clients have spent years successfully intellectualizing their pain. They can tell the "story" of their stress with clinical precision, but they’ve reached the limit of what "thinking" can solve.
The Somatic Difference: A Bottom-Up Approach
Traditional talk therapy is a "top-down" process—it focuses on the thinking brain to change how you feel. But for high-achievers, the mind is often a master at building defense mechanisms that keep the "root cause" tucked away.
I work from the "bottom-up." My approach integrates attachment theory with vagus nerve regulation and neuro-somatic integration to address the biological blueprints of your anxiety, trauma, and exhaustion.
Why We Go Beyond "Talk"
By prioritizing your nervous system over your narrative, we are able to reach the cellular level of your experience. We don't just discuss your history; we shift the physiological patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of people-pleasing and professional self-sabotage.
In this boutique model, your intelligence is respected, but your nervous system is the priority.
Learn more about Ashley here
The Bottom-Up Framework: How It Works in Your Membership
Because deep somatic rewiring requires more than sporadic, one-off sessions, my practice is structured as a Strategic Container for Depth.
We move past the narrative of your life and into the actual experience of it, allowing for a foundational transformation that "talk" alone cannot reach.
• Neuro-Somatic Integration: We identify the biological "glitches" and survival patterns that traditional venting sessions often miss.
• Relational Mastery: We transform attachment wounds to end the "white-knuckling" of your success, moving you into a state of sustainable internal calm.
• Coordinated Integration: Through our resource library and daily messaging, you have the tools to regulate your system in real-time, whether you're in a boardroom or at the dinner table.
Reflections on Transformation
"If you’ve been hesitant to start therapy or anxious about finding the right person, well look no further. Ashley is truly one of the best therapists in Charlotte. She creates such a safe, welcoming environment that makes it easy to open up. Her holistic approach helps you understand and heal the root causes. Working with her has genuinely changed the way I view myself, my relationships, and how I handle stress and emotions.
I’ve made more progress with Ashley in months than I did in years elsewhere. She’s incredibly skilled at helping you find that you are stronger than you think! I cannot recommend Ashley enough!"
- Tyler B.
"I happened across Blue Sage Counseling from a google search after my husband had strongly encouraged I seek therapy. I sought out a practice that was not going to be the traditional talk therapy but something holistic. I began this journey with Ashley apprehensive and not knowing what I even needed. Ashley has been an amazing guide on my healing journey and has given me insight and tools that I will be forever indebted to her for. She created a safe space for me to learn about myself and connect to who I really am while gently guiding me to dig deeper. I can say that after my time with Ashley that I have less anxiety, more confidence and am able to tune into my needs and now have an ability to express myself appropriately no matter the emotion I’m feeling. Her insight has given me a different perspective on my relationship, my children and my life as a whole. I highly recommend this practice!"
- Melanie B.
"I felt like I was able to move through more past trauma within a couple sessions with Ashley than years of talk therapy combined. She has a unique ability to safely guide me in and then out of emotions and past trauma using experiential therapy.
Working with Ashley has been my first experience with this style of therapy and I am never looking back. I feel I am able to do so much work in just one short hour with her because of it.
I no longer live in Charlotte but make it a point to see Ashley when in town. We recently did a four hour intensive session when I was visiting and it was absolutely transformative. We were able to get deep into core wounds and thought patterns like I haven't been able to do before. I feel so comfortable emoting a wide range of emotions in front of her and with her like I haven't been able to do with previous therapists. I feel safe, supported, and guided in my sessions with Ashley. I've gained so much more insight and sense of resilience since starting this journey with Ashley and plan to continue. If you are ready to do the work, I cannot recommend Ashley more!"
- Kayla K.
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