About Monica
Monica Zepeda is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with nine years of experience in medical and behavioral health settings. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and life changes. Monica values direct, practical work that helps people make meaningful changes in day-to-day life.
Monica listens for what already works in a person’s life and builds from those strengths. She views the person as the expert in their story and offers guidance and tools to manage hard moments.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with time for reflection and problem solving. Her background includes supporting people through family conflict, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and adoption or foster care concerns. Monica has experience addressing communication problems, codependency, feelings of emptiness, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation.
Monica also helps people coping with serious medical issues like cancer, chronic pain, and other long-term conditions. She supports those facing aging and geriatric transitions and the stress that comes with caring for others. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Monica aims to create a predictable, respectful space where people can try new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. She encourages small, manageable steps and practical strategies that fit daily life.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Monica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-life changes. One common approach is brief, skills-based work that teaches practical tools for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and activity scheduling. These techniques help reduce immediate distress and improve daily functioning.She also employs structured problem-solving and communication strategies to address relationship strain and role demands. This involves identifying recurring patterns, practicing different responses, and rehearsing new ways to ask for needs or set boundaries. These steps can help with caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Monica collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as needs change. The client’s input guides which strategies are tried and how progress is measured.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow for face-to-face connection when that matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to fit brief conversations into a busy day. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on reducing anxiety and improving coping.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- Spanish
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