About Monica
Monica Sosa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New Mexico who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and other common struggles. She writes in plain terms and aims to make therapy feel manageable for busy parents and adults. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings.
Monica brings eight years of clinical experience to her work as an LCSW. She trained in family studies and social work and has practiced in community settings.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, substance use concerns, and parenting challenges. Monica adapts her approach to fit who is sitting across from her rather than using a fixed method. In session she uses client-centered techniques to build a respectful, down-to-earth relationship.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness exercises for managing intense feelings. Monica helps people address relationship stress, family conflict, impulse control, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports clients with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and social anxiety concerns. Practical tools and clear skill-building are common parts of her work. Her style is warm, approachable, and nonjudgmental.
Monica emphasizes respect and sensitivity while helping people make small, sustainable changes. She encourages clients to try new strategies and notice what works for them.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, empathetic relationship and helping people set their own goals; online sessions let that collaborative work continue even when schedules are tight. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and depression, which adapts well to video lessons, worksheets, and short practice tasks between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills, and these can be taught through step-by-step coaching during calls and reinforced with phone or text check-ins.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Clients and the therapist work together to adjust tools and strategies over time so the plan matches daily life.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and skill demonstrations, phone calls can work when bandwidth is low, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy regular and practical for people coping with anxiety, parenting stress, mood challenges, or life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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