About Monica
Monica Gutierrez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, relationship pain, and big life changes. Monica aims to make therapy a straightforward, useful place to talk and plan next steps.
She pays close attention to patterns that shape how people feel and act. That includes beliefs about the self, attachment and relationship habits, and coping responses that no longer help.
Background and approach
Monica helps clients name these patterns and try practical alternatives. Sessions mix emotional exploration with hands-on tools. Clients can expect clear, compassionate feedback along with strategies for managing panic, mood shifts, or daily stress.
She emphasizes building stronger boundaries, better self-trust, and healthier responses to conflict. Monica works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar conditions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing abandonment wounds, codependency, communication problems, and recovery from sexual assault and domestic violence.
Her approach draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, somatic work, and trauma-focused practices. Monica invites clients into a collaborative process that balances feeling heard with making practical changes. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's goals and values. It helps people feel heard and discover their own solutions for anxiety, relationship strain, or self-doubt.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Monica uses CBT techniques to help manage panic attacks, mood shifts, and unhelpful thinking patterns with concrete exercises and homework.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These tools can be useful for stress, rumination, and emotional overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Monica will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt methods to a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to try things together and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deep conversations and visual cues. Phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging fit shorter updates or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or busy schedules while keeping the therapeutic work consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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