About Monica
Monica Rawlings is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and relationship struggles. She writes and speaks plainly and meets clients where they are. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at easing overwhelm and building practical coping skills.
Monica uses a person-centered way of working so clients lead the priorities in session. She blends that with cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build different responses.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Over a decade in the field has given her experience with trauma, grief, body image, and intimacy-related concerns. She has worked with people navigating major life changes such as divorce, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and job-related pressure.
She pays particular attention to the needs of LGBT people and neurodivergent clients. Sessions focus on practical tools and clearer self-understanding. Monica helps people reduce panic, handle everyday stress, and address compulsive or addictive behaviors step by step.
She encourages small changes that add up to steadier days. Clients can expect a collaborative process that values their goals and pace. Monica is licensed in Utah as an LCMHC and brings ten years of clinical experience to her practice.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Monica draws on client-centered therapy to build a trusting working relationship where the person's concerns set the agenda and progress moves at their pace. This approach is useful for people who need a compassionate space to talk through identity, relationship, or life-purpose questions.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety and to practice concrete skills for managing panic, compulsions, and mood shifts. CBT is practical and often fits well into online sessions where homework and brief skill drills can be assigned between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monica will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring. She adapts strategies over time based on what helps most, so the plan can change as progress emerges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is helpful for a full-session experience, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging allow quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options give flexibility so people can use the way of working that best matches their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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