About Monica
Monica Connell is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She guides people who are coping with trauma, depression, career strain, and major life changes. Her style aims to create steady momentum and a clearer sense of control in day-to-day life.
She begins by listening and reflecting to make sure each person feels understood. Then she works with them to identify roots of their concerns and what gets in the way of change.
Background and approach
From there she collaborates on a practical plan tied to clear goals. Sessions focus on small, manageable steps that build over time. Monica brings four years of clinical experience to her Colorado practice.
She holds the credential of Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW, and also lists CSW and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - LICSW. Monica uses those years to tailor work to each person's pace and needs. Common topics she addresses include anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, low self-esteem, and ADHD-related difficulties.
She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, workplace problems, abandonment wounds, isolation, and midlife transitions. Her practice offers flexible scheduling with day and evening hours and a focus on practical progress. Monica aims to help people move from feeling stuck to noticing steady change in how they handle life’s demands.
Approaches that guide online work
Monica uses evidence-based techniques focused on understanding what keeps a problem going and building clearer ways to manage it. One common approach she uses involves listening and helping people identify patterns that maintain anxiety or depression, then testing small behavior or routine changes to reduce their impact. This helps with worry, low mood, and daily functioning.Another approach centers on processing trauma and painful experiences at a pace the person can handle. That work focuses on naming what happened, noticing how it shows up now, and developing practical skills to reduce its hold on everyday life. Those techniques often support people coping with post-traumatic stress, abandonment wounds, or intense emotional reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Monica treats finding fit as a collaboration - she will listen to your goals, try methods that suit your needs, and adjust as you go. You and she will decide together which techniques feel most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when video is not possible or bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule sessions during work breaks, evenings, or when travel is difficult, while keeping focus on steady progress toward your goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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