About Monica
Monica Williams is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio. She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Cincinnati in 2018 and brings seven years of clinical experience in mental health and addiction services. She focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, and substance use.
She also helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and the strain that comes with big life changes.
Background and approach
Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and problems with impulse control. Monica aims to offer a straightforward, compassionate approach. Sessions involve practical tools and honest conversation.
She wants to help clients build skills they can use between meetings and to encourage steady progress toward their goals. In the room she blends acceptance-based methods, cognitive techniques, and mindfulness practice. She also draws on motivational interviewing and client-centered principles to support engagement and self-direction.
This combination is used to address mood, addictive behaviors, and relationship patterns. Monica believes therapy can provide the guidance she herself once wanted growing up. She frames work as a partnership that helps people make meaningful changes.
Prospective clients can expect a direct but understanding style that focuses on real-life steps and clarity about what comes next.
How Monica’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful when anxiety, avoidance, or unclear priorities get in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and addiction. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can ease stress and support emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Monica will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and checks in about what is helping and what should change so care stays practical and person-centered.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for short updates, homework support, or when steady written contact helps progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between visits.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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