Ashley Thorndike, LGPC

I’m here to help you create your life.

I help performing artists grow sustainable careers in and through the arts. I’m a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (#LGP13487)  in Maryland and an advocate for dance and movement education.

I hold a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University, an MEd from the University of Virginia in Counselor Education, and a BFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah.

I have worked at colleges, universities, and K12 independent and international schools as a dance professor and as a learning specialist. For nine years, I directed a psychoeducational-arts nonprofit organization and in that time I created the framework that still guides my work: Action, Support, Curiosity, Challenge, and Resilience. These vectors with thinking, feeling, and moving dimensions can help us shape our way through the world. 

I’m now the owner of Small Space Education & Therapy, a somatic psychotherapy, education, and Pilates practice in Maryland.

*photo by Jenny K O’Brien