About Monica
Monica Guerrero is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience. She offers bilingual therapy in English and Spanish and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and low self-esteem. Her work centers on practical steps people can use day to day.
Monica aims to make the work feel manageable. She helps people identify what matters most, build small coping skills, and try new ways of responding to hard moments.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and simple practices that fit into a busy life. Her background includes long clinical experience across varied settings, which she uses to guide people through life changes and loss. She also addresses issues that often come with chronic illness, caregiving, cancer, and pain.
Monica pays attention to how physical health and emotional health interact. Communication and relationship concerns are a common focus. She helps people improve how they express needs, set boundaries, and repair misunderstandings.
Work on self-love, purpose, guilt, and forgiveness is offered in ways that feel tangible and real. Panic and social fears are also within her focus. Monica teaches practical strategies for panic attacks, social anxiety, and seasonal mood shifts.
Her style is culturally aware and respectful of each person’s background. People who meet with her can expect straightforward, bilingual support that balances emotional work with actionable tools. She supports individuals through the slow work of healing while aiming for useful changes that land in everyday life.
Evidence-based approaches for anxiety and life transitions
Monica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and repeated practice. One common approach involves teaching breathing and grounding techniques, exposure strategies, and step-by-step tools to reduce panic and social anxiety. These methods help people face feared situations more comfortably over time.She also works with strategies that target mood and stress regulation, such as activity planning and problem-solving routines. These practices help with depression, seasonal mood shifts, caregiver burnout, and the emotional effects of chronic illness or cancer by encouraging small, achievable changes that improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences, trying different tools and adjusting based on what helps. This shared decision-making makes it easier to settle on methods that feel useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins, live chat supports short updates, and text messaging works well for brief, ongoing skill practice. These options let people fit sessions into busy lives and continue steady progress without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New York, California, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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