Welcome to Mood Psychotherapy
Mood is a depth-oriented, psychodynamic, parts-work practice dedicated to helping clients enrich their inner lives and create meaningful change. Serving adults, couples, families, and teens, Mood integrates somatic, expressive, visual, and dreamwork modalities to address a wide range of issues, including trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, climate concerns, and relational challenges. We look forward to supporting each person’s journey toward resilience, creativity, and insight.
Rooted in post-Jungian, depth, family systems, and existential traditions, our practice blends visual, expressive, and somatic modalities to foster meaningful change. Whether you're navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, or grappling with existential concerns, we’ll work together with intention, helping you build insight and move to remove blocks, employ pattern recognition, and inside to right the path where you can tap your most attuned potential.
We work well with folks who take their inner lives seriously or are learning to do so. Therapy isn’t just about fixing or achieving; it’s a process of surrendering old patterns, unlearning defenses, and expanding self-awareness. We learn and unlearn old patterns best relationally. Through careful inquiry, we’ll explore the depths of your experience and uncover new routes for unworking patterns and outmoded defenses.
Practitioners at Mood incorporate intersectionality into the therapeutic space. Socio-political issues that are being engaged with and exposed in the collective are inclusive of mental health issues and must be addressed. Threading trauma and attachment work into the modalities we work with, including depth and psychodynamics, narrative and expressive arts, play therapy and family systems— means that you are met in the consulting room as a whole human. Inclusive and affirmative; we have and experience working with Trans, BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, Poly individuals and couples.
Ash Compton, MA, LMFT, LPC, EMDR-Certified
Founder and Psychotherapist
Ash is a trauma-focused, relational licensed psychotherapist practicing in depth and existential traditions. She employs myriad methods, including visual, expressive, and somatic modalities to enhance coping skills, make meaning, and foster change. Her therapeutic style is direct and supportive, inviting you into a collaborative process where depth and discovery are central. Ash works extensively with creatives, high-achieving founders, and highly attuned folks.
Ash is EMDR-Certified, which she uses for acute and complex traumas, OCD/phobias, chronic pain, and as a part of a depth and somatic framework. Ash has additional training in IFS-inform4ed EMDR. These techniques pair with focuses on attachment traumas, anxiety, obsessions, disordered eating and thinking, stress, grief, existential-humanistic modalities, and climate and disaster anxieties in humanistic and psychodynamic orientations.
Outside of therapeutic work, yet quite related, Ash is engaged in research, writing and engagement in the climate crisis space.
In Practice for 8 Years
Licenses: Connecticut LMFT and LPC; Texas LMFT
EMDR Certified Therapist through EMDRIA, and current Consultant in Training
Yale Climate Change and Human Health Certificate; Adaptation and Mitigation Practitioner