About Malissa
Malissa Monaghan is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She focuses on real-life problems like workplace stress, social anxiety, grief, and relationship tensions. Her approach aims to make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
She offers a calm, straightforward style in sessions. Conversations center on what matters to the client now. She listens for patterns that cause pain and helps clients try practical ways to change them.
Background and approach
Malissa uses a mix of methods to fit each person's needs. She draws from client-centered work to keep the person's goals central. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas help break unhelpful thought patterns and build coping skills.
When emotions run high, techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy support emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Solution-focused strategies are used to set small, achievable steps toward clearer goals. Her background includes long experience with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and the challenges that come with co-occurring conditions.
She also works with people navigating parenting pressures, fatherhood issues, workplace concerns, and the effects of isolation. Sessions aim to strengthen communication, reduce overwhelm, and rebuild confidence. Malissa practices in New York as an LMHC and conducts sessions in English.
She helps people find practical steps to feel steadier and more in control of their lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Malissa commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client’s goals so conversations stay focused on what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thought patterns and behaviors and teaches hands-on skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss options with each person and tailor methods based on symptoms, life demands, and personal preferences rather than applying one fixed model.
Online formats can make regular therapy easier to keep up. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when more contact feels helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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