About Monika
Monika Broecker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 14 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and a range of life challenges. Monika offers straightforward guidance and practical tools to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life.
She uses an approach that blends body-focused work with goal-oriented talking therapies. Sessions often include noticing bodily reactions, learning simple ways to ease tension, and testing new ways of thinking and acting.
Background and approach
Monika aims to make each session feel doable and focused on the next small step. Clients come with many different concerns, including intimacy worries, sleep and eating difficulties, addiction issues, parenting strain, and questions around identity and attachment. She also supports people dealing with trauma, fertility struggles, blended family problems, and forgiveness work.
Monika listens for what matters most and helps people set clear, realistic goals. Monika trained in somatic approaches and solution-focused methods and integrates psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral ideas into her work. She draws on 14 years of practice in California to tailor methods to each person.
Sessions are offered in English and German. People who choose her can expect a calm, direct style that combines practical strategies with attention to emotional and bodily experience. She encourages small experiments between sessions so progress can be noticed and adjusted over time.
How somatic and solution-focused work adapts online
Monika draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, worry, sleep and mood concerns because it breaks problems into manageable steps and simple experiments. She also uses Somatic Therapy techniques that pay attention to bodily sensations and tension; these practices help people become more aware of stress in the body and try small physical shifts to reduce it.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then try methods that feel most useful. Monika adjusts tools as progress is checked and new needs emerge, so the plan can change over time based on what works for the person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is useful for hands-on guidance and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work days, caregiving routines, or long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, German
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