About Monica
Monica Avalos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with seven years of experience. She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges around parenting and career. Monica frames the client as the expert in their own life and aims to build on the strengths clients already have.
She listens with a calm, straightforward style and helps clients name what feels hardest. Sessions are practical and action-oriented.
Background and approach
Monica uses tools that teach new skills for coping, managing overwhelming thoughts, and improving mood. Her work often includes acceptance and commitment ideas that help people clarify values and take small steps toward them. Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors that produce better results.
She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to make space for feelings and increase present-moment awareness. Monica supports people facing life transitions, midlife questions, and identity concerns including LGBT issues. She also helps with chronic pain or illness, attachment and abandonment concerns, infertility stress, immigration-related strain, and feelings of isolation or loneliness.
Practical matters such as scheduling and the format of sessions are discussed up front. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Monica works with each person to find a pace and plan that fits their life.
Online approaches that focus on values, skills, and present-moment work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes identifying what matters most and taking small, guided steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by shifting focus from fighting inner experience to building a meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and habits and then test new ways of thinking and behaving. It is practical for depression, anxiety, and problems that respond to skill practice and behavior change.
Monica treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. She will work with clients to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. That may mean trying one approach for a while or combining elements from different methods to see what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared tools, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into hectic schedules, remote locations, or changing routines while working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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