About Monica
Monica Erk is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Indiana. She brings 12 years of experience helping people deal with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her manner is warm and respectful, and she focuses on clear, practical steps people can use day to day.
Monica uses a mix of therapy approaches to fit each person's needs. She draws on attachment-focused work to look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help change troubling thoughts and behaviors, plus DBT skills for emotional regulation and coping. Sessions are collaborative. Monica listens first, then helps set goals you can try between visits.
She explains techniques plainly and practices them together in session so people feel confident using them later. She has worked with concerns across many areas - panic and anxiety, grief and loss, addiction, sleep problems, parenting strain, and life transitions. Monica also addresses issues like self-esteem, guilt, and isolation that often underlie other symptoms.
Monica offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions. People who want to begin are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that suits them. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time.
How specific therapies translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and connection. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to identify patterns and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through step-by-step techniques like thought records and behavioral experiments that are easy to share and review during a video or messaging session. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance; those skills translate well to brief coaching in text or structured work on video.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monica will help clients decide which methods fit best based on their goals, symptoms, and everyday life. She adapts exercises so people can try them between meetings and brings results back into later sessions to adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists see body language during deeper work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get brief coaching, skill reminders, or check-ins during a busy day. These formats let people access licensed professionals from different locations while keeping scheduling and travel simpler.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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