About Monica
Monica DuShane is a licensed clinical social worker who brings nine years of experience to her practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, career changes, and a wide range of life transitions. Monica uses straightforward, compassionate care to help clients find practical ways forward.
She helps people build resilience and manage strong emotions like guilt, shame, anger, and grief. Sessions focus on clear goals such as improving sleep, handling workplace strain, or coping with chronic health issues.
Background and approach
Monica also provides support around intimacy-related concerns, communication problems, and parenting challenges. Her style centers on the person in front of her. Monica listens first, then helps clients choose approaches that fit their needs.
That can mean talking through past patterns, practicing new coping skills, or trying short, goal-focused strategies in between sessions. She draws on several well-known approaches, including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and psychodynamic perspectives. Those methods are used to tackle symptoms and to understand how past experiences shape present reactions.
Monica works with people dealing with illness, caregiver stress, aging concerns, and family of origin issues. She is based in Ohio and holds the credential LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker). Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each persons situation.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Monica uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy as common tools in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, listening relationship where the persons goals guide the sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas when emotional regulation and strong feelings are a central problem. DBT-based skills teach practical ways to manage intense emotions, tolerate distress, and improve interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. Monica will talk with each person about their goals, what has helped before, and how they prefer to work. Together they pick strategies and adjust the plan over time to fit progress and changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let therapists and clients meet face to face when screens work well. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support short updates, homework check-ins, and more frequent contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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