About Mona
Mona Bartram is an LCSW who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. She offers steady support for those facing depression, sleep problems, and life transitions. Her approach centers on practical steps people can use between sessions.
With 20 years of experience, Mona draws on several psychotherapy methods to fit each person's needs. She listens first and helps clients name what matters most to them. Together they set small goals that feel doable in daily life.
Background and approach
Mona uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She also brings acceptance and commitment therapy ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps. Emotionally-focused and client-centered techniques guide deeper conversations about attachment and connection.
Sessions often focus on skills for handling anxiety, managing strong emotions, and improving communication. She works with people dealing with family strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and loss. Practical strategies for sleep, coping with change, and reducing impulsive reactions are common topics.
Her Texas licensure is LCSW, and she conducts sessions in English. People connect with Mona through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Online approaches that focus on values and thoughts
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, low mood, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions and improving connection, which can help with relationship distress and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Mona works collaboratively with clients to match methods to goals and preferences. She will explain options, try practical techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit in. Video lets people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer short, flexible ways to follow up between sessions or get support without scheduling a full call.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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