About Monica
Monica Duncan is a licensed social worker with 24 years of practice who helps people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and meets people where they are. Monica centers sessions on practical steps that fit each person's life and goals.
She focuses on building a steady working plan. Sessions begin with what matters most to the client. Monica listens, asks clear questions, and helps set small, achievable steps to reduce worry and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Monica blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. She also draws on emotionally-focused ideas to help with closeness and communication problems. The work emphasizes strengths and simple skills clients can try between sessions.
Her style is warm and direct. Monica offers guidance while encouraging people to use their own judgment and values. She stresses realistic pacing and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Monica practices in Michigan as an MI Licensed Master Social Worker, or LMSW. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. It lets the therapist follow what the client says matters most, which helps shape goals and the pace of work. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Monica will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She may combine listening-focused work with CBT or solution-focused steps so sessions stay relevant and doable for the person in front of her.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video works well for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, quick skills practice, or people who prefer typed communication. Together these options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep steady progress between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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