About Monica
Monica Christian is a licensed professional counselor who has spent 15 years helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes. She practices in Wisconsin and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Parents reading on a phone will find brief, clear language and a calm tone that focuses on what happens in sessions.
Monica pays attention to relationship dynamics and how they affect daily life. She helps people talk through communication problems, codependency, and the fallout from separation or divorce.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns tied to family of origin, attachment, abandonment, and blended family issues. Trauma and abuse are part of her clinical focus, and she supports people processing painful experiences at a pace that feels manageable. She also addresses struggles connected to illness, fatherhood issues, and feelings of emptiness or loss of purpose.
Sessions aim to build practical skills. Monica emphasizes clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and coping tools that fit into a busy life. She helps clients name patterns and try different ways of responding to stress.
People who prefer direct, compassionate guidance will likely fit her style. The work is collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to both immediate relief and long-term changes. All sessions are conducted in English and follow the scope of practice for a Wisconsin LPC.
Evidence-based approaches and online options
Monica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and stress by teaching breathing, grounding, and behavioral strategies that reduce day-to-day overwhelm. This helps people manage panic, social anxiety, and chronic worry in practical ways.Another frequently used method concentrates on relationship patterns and communication. It helps people identify unhelpful interaction cycles, practice clearer expression, and set healthier boundaries in close relationships. This approach is useful for codependency, divorce-related concerns, and family of origin issues.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Monica will review a client's goals, preferences, and current struggles and then suggest techniques to try. She adjusts the plan as progress is made, and clients and therapist decide together what works best.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in option, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, brief exchanges between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days and make it easier to keep consistent momentum toward personal goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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