About Monica
Monica Massengale is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) based in Nebraska. She uses a kind, nonjudgmental style to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. Monica focuses on practical skills people can use right away so daily life feels more manageable.
She draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness, to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are woven into sessions to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward what matters to them.
Background and approach
Attachment-based work informs how she talks about relationships and connection. Monica has six years of clinical experience across hospice care, addiction and homeless services, and community therapy settings. Those roles gave her hands-on experience supporting grief, end-of-life concerns, trauma, and complex life stressors.
She also ran groups and provided individual support in higher-need settings. In sessions she listens for the moment someone recognizes a new option and then helps them build on it. Her work is goal-focused and gentle, with an emphasis on teaching coping skills, improving sleep and managing anger, and reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Monica aims to help people move through hard times and find more balance. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats and conducts therapy in English for people in Nebraska. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Therapeutic options and online care
Monica commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based methods to help people change unhelpful thinking and build practical coping skills. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing small changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help clients clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist and client discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online appointments are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still focusing on practical skills and problem solving.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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