About Monica
Monica Mendes is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties. She works with clients dealing with grief, family conflict, self-esteem worries and major life changes. Monica brings a calm, respectful approach to conversations and focuses on practical ways forward.
She has eleven years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Monica adapts sessions to each person's needs and goals rather than using a fixed script.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward, paced to what the person can manage, and focused on small, achievable steps. In practice she draws on client-centred work to build trust and understanding. Mindfulness techniques are used to help people manage stress and anxiety in the moment.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools support decision making and short-term goals. Conversations cover topics such as attachment and abandonment, communication difficulties, caregiver stress, codependency and intimacy-related concerns. Monica also supports people exploring aspects of sexuality and kink, and those dealing with dissociation or the effects of trauma and abuse.
Her style is warm, direct and non-judgemental. Monica encourages people to notice what helps and what gets in the way, and then to try different strategies. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where progress is built step by step.
How Monica’s approaches work online
Monica uses client-centred therapy to create a respectful, listening space where the person sets the agenda and is treated with empathy. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard about relationship or family issues and when building trust is the first goal.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple practices for managing anxiety and stress in the moment. These are short exercises people can use between appointments to reduce overwhelm and improve focus.
Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. Monica will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and try methods that fit the person’s needs. She checks in regularly about what is working and adjusts the plan together.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls let people pick up non-verbal cues and recreate a face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, diary-style reflections or shorter weekly support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to continue progress even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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