About Monica
Monica Dada (Barham) helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She supports those facing relationship and family challenges, grief, trauma, and identity questions. Monica brings two decades of clinical experience to each session.
She keeps sessions straightforward and focused. Conversations aim to identify what matters most and find practical steps forward. Monica uses gentle listening and clear feedback so clients can try small changes between meetings.
Her work draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered methods and motivational interviewing to tailor the process to each person. These approaches are used to address mood, coping with life changes, anger, self-esteem, and issues like body image or caregiver stress. Monica has experience supporting people with complex or overlapping concerns, including chronic illness, co-morbidity, and grief.
She also works with people navigating gender and sexual identity, fertility-related stress, and HIV or AIDS related issues. Her Maryland practice reflects 20 years of clinical work and problem-solving with adults. Sessions are offered in English and are geared toward practical outcomes.
Monica helps clients set realistic goals and build skills they can use day to day. She aims to make therapy a manageable part of a busy life.
How Monica’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going, then trying concrete experiments to change them. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, practical steps that move someone toward what they want to see more of in life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Monica will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video is helpful for deeper discussions and working through exercises together. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving schedules, or busy days while staying focused on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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