About Monique
Monique Damroth is a California psychologist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges tied to relationships or past trauma. She works with people who are navigating LGBT concerns and with those feeling stuck by shame, isolation, or body image worries. Her tone is encouraging and practical for people who feel unsure about starting therapy.
Monique emphasizes that clients know their own stories and brings ten years of professional experience to each session.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths clients already have and helps them use those strengths to manage symptoms and make changes. She sees taking the first step as an act of courage and focuses on small, doable steps that build forward motion. In sessions she uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address panic, post-traumatic stress, mood problems, and chronic illness-related strain.
Conversations focus on real-life situations - what happens day to day, what triggers stress, and which thoughts and behaviors get in the way of feeling better. Work often includes practicing new ways of coping between sessions. Monique commonly helps people clear up communication problems, process grief from divorce or separation, and work through attachment or abandonment concerns.
She also supports those facing midlife questions, life-purpose confusion, or the weight of guilt and forgiveness. She offers appointments in California and accepts international clients for remote work. Sessions are conducted in English and use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging methods.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Monique uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety, panic, and stress. One approach focuses on practical skills for coping with anxiety and panic attacks, teaching breathing and grounding strategies and step-by-step methods to reduce avoidance. Another approach centers on processing trauma and its effects, helping people name triggers, understand responses, and develop healthier routines for daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monique collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. She evaluates what helps in early sessions and adjusts plans as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support ongoing processing, quick check-ins, or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, and travel schedules while still focusing on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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