About Mona
Mona Awad is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with five years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with major life changes. Mona emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach and sees clients as the experts in their own stories.
Her sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then helps people identify small, doable steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Conversations cover how feelings, thoughts, and daily habits connect, and how to make changes that fit each person's life. Mona uses client-centered methods to build trust and focus on what matters most to each person. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical alternatives.
These approaches are used in simple, concrete ways rather than as technical procedures. Common topics she addresses include abandonment, family-of-origin concerns, caregiver stress, relationship transitions like divorce, and issues tied to fertility or immigration. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, emptiness, and blended family tensions.
Sessions are aimed at helping people manage symptoms and make clear, realistic plans. Mona offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She works in English and accepts international clients, helping people find a format that works for their routine and needs.
How Mona’s approaches work online
Mona uses client-centered methods to make sessions focused on each person's priorities. That means she asks about what matters most, reflects what she hears, and helps set goals that feel realistic. Client-centered work is useful for people who want a respectful space to sort through emotions and decisions.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT-style work here involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. This approach is often helpful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Mona will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then adapt methods over time. She encourages feedback so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow longer, face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or day-to-day support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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