About Monica
Monica Cowan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and self-esteem concerns. She works with adults facing career shifts, life changes, and challenges to motivation and confidence. Her style is straightforward and supportive for people taking the first step toward help.
Monica creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult feelings and figure out next steps. She listens for what matters most and helps break problems into manageable parts.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical strategies that clients can try between meetings. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on mindfulness practices to reduce stress and improve sleep. Solution-focused tools and motivational interviewing are used to set clear goals and boost follow-through.
Monica adapts those approaches to match each person's pace and priorities. With ten years of professional experience, she has worked with people dealing with grief, caregiver strain, postpartum mood changes, and medical-related concerns such as cancer and hospice situations. Monica also supports people facing money stress, midlife questions, and multicultural issues.
Monica offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She encourages small steps and practical plans so progress feels achievable. To begin, clients choose the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Monica commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus during busy or overwhelming times.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Monica works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and pace. She may combine short-term solution-focused steps and motivational interviewing techniques to build momentum and clarify next moves.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their routine. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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