About Ashley Hartman, LCSW PMHC RYT-200
She knows what it is to feel stuck.
And she knows you were not meant to stay there.
The Story
I tried to be good. It didn’t keep me safe – the way they told me that it would.
— after Florence + the Machine
Ashley was thirteen years old when her mother kicked her out for protesting her alcoholism. No one named what happened. No one explained that her grief made sense. Instead she was taken to doctors, handed a diagnosis — bipolar disorder — and handed a role: the sick one, the broken one, the one who had to earn her place.
She wore that role for decades. Into her education, her career, two marriages, early motherhood. She overperformed, overfunctioned, intellectualized everything. She became a therapist. She did the EMDR and the IFS and the somatic work — as both clinician and patient — and still felt the hollow underneath it all.
I was never mentally ill. I was betrayed. Over and over, by
everyone who was supposed to love me. And somewhere beneath the betrayal — I always knew.
It wasn’t until a bitter divorce, a custody battle alone during COVID, four moves in four years —and finally, psychedelic therapy, yoga, embodiment, and a therapist named Lynn who said not bipolar, complex PTSD — that the long journey of remembering began.
Not remembering what happened. Remembering who she was before it did.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run With the Wolves named what Ashley had always felt but never had language for — the wild woman, the original knowing, the self who was never broken, only exiled. The moment she found that language, everything changed.
The work was never about becoming someone new. It was
always about returning to the original knowing — the one that was there before the wounding began.
Ashley is here to help you remember – YOU are the one you’ve been waiting for.
The Clinician
Ashley Hartman is a somatic and attachment trauma therapist with fifteen years of clinical experience. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a perinatal mental health clinician, a RYT-200 yoga instructor, a complex PTSD survivor, and a woman who has died a thousand times to become this version of herself.
She is trained in perinatal and attachment focused EMDR, Internal Family Systems, parts work, somatic healing, and early developmental trauma — the wounds that form before we have words for them. She specializes in perinatal and postpartum care, complex PTSD & disassociation, the mother wound, and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
She did not collect these trainings to build a resume. She collected them because she was determined to understand — from the inside — why we stay stuck, and what it actually takes to get free.
Certifications
LCSW — Illinois & Colorado | PMHC – Perinatal Mental Health Clinician | RYT-200 Trauma-Informed Yoga | Brainspotting | IFS | DNMS | Ego State Therapy | Perinatal & Attachment EMDR | Ketamine-Assisted EMDR | KAP Certified
ASHLEY HARTMAN
Somatic & Attachment Trauma Specialist | Registered Yoga Teacher | Perinatal Mental Health Clinician
Ashley Hartman, LCSW, PMH-C, RYT-200, is a somatic and attachment trauma therapist with over 15 years of clinical experience specializing in complex PTSD, attachment wounds, the mother wound, and pre-verbal trauma. As a complex PTSD survivor whose personal healing journey is foundational to her clinical identity, Ashley brings embodied understanding to her work with clients navigating deep trauma and transformation.
LICENSES & CREDENTIALS
Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker
(LCSW)
Perinatal Mental Health Counselor
(PMH-C) — Postpartum Support International
Colorado Licensed Clinical Social Worker
(LCSW)
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) — Rising Lotus Yoga
SPECIALIZED TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Training
KA-EMDR Institute, 2025
Journey Care
Fluence Training — October 2024
IFS Foundations Masterclass
Dr. Kendhal Hart, August 2024
Ego State Therapy Interventions Training
DNMS Institute, LLC (Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA, LPC), January 2024
Ego State Interventions Training
SCCSW 2022 Annual Conference (Robin Shapiro, LICSW)
Perinatal EMDR Training
Institute for Creative Mindfulness, May 2022
Brainspotting Phase One Training
August 2020
DARE (Developmental, Attachment, Relational, Engagement) Training
Diane Poole Heller, February 2019
Advanced Perinatal Art of Holding
Karen Kleiman, 2018
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Certification
2021
EDUCATION
Master of Social Work (MSW) — Clinical Social Work, University of Chicago, 2011
Bachelor of Arts — North Central College, 2003
PUBLICATIONS, PODCASTS & WORKSHOPS
Podcasts
Loosening Up: The KA-EMDR Podcast, Episode 7
Workshops & Speaking Engagements
“Finding Safety in Your Body: Reparenting Workshop” — July 2026
Yoga Life Center — Trauma-Informed Yin and Hatha Lite Classes (ongoing)
CLINICAL APPROACH
Ashley specializes in Attachment-Focused EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS) & parts work, somatic therapy, trauma-informed yoga, and ketamine-assisted EMDR—modalities she integrates to create comprehensive, multidimensional healing for clients. Her approach is grounded in relational safety, nervous system attunement, and deep respect for each person’s healing timeline.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Complex PTSD & Complex Trauma | Attachment Wounds & Relational Trauma | The Mother Wound | Pre-Verbal & Early Developmental Trauma | Perinatal Mental Health | Dissociative Presentation | Attachment-Focused EMDR | Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Parts Work | Ketamine-Assisted EMDR | Somatic Therapy & Trauma-Informed Yoga | Inner Child Work
THE SACRED BECOMING
The Sacred Becoming is an integrative trauma practice offering two primary service containers: Sacred Rhythm (individual therapy sessions) and Deep Descent (90-minute intensive ketamine-assisted EMDR sessions). Ashley collaborates with Sarah Tisser, PMHNP, for psychiatric evaluation and prescribing.
Office Location: 1333 S Schoolhouse Rd, New Lenox, IL
Contact: ashley@ashley-hartman.com | the-sacred-becoming.com
Who She Walks With
The souls who find Ashley are accomplished, self-aware, and quietly exhausted from a life that looks right from the outside and feels hollow from the inside.
They have done the work. And still something essential remains just out of reach.
They are not broken. They are not too much. They are not too late.
She is not here to hand you answers.
She is here to hold the space while you find your own.