About Monique
Monique Gilcrest is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship struggles. She focuses on clear, practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Monique works with adults facing life changes, grief, trauma, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and career pressure.
She draws on several evidence-informed methods to shape sessions. In practice this means learning simple coping tools, noticing thoughts that worsen anxiety, and practicing new ways to talk about difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Meetings are collaborative - the person sets goals and Monique offers strategies to reach them. Monique has eight years of experience counseling people in South Carolina and beyond. She has helped clients cope with isolation, compassion fatigue, anger, intimacy issues, and family of origin concerns.
Her background includes work with hospice and end-of-life situations and with people processing major life transitions. Sessions often focus on skills you can use right away, like grounding for panic, communication skills for strained relationships, or pacing plans for chronic pain and fatigue. She also addresses deeper patterns such as guilt, shame, and forgiveness when people are ready to look at them.
Monique offers therapy in English and welcomes international clients. Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their routine. Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first meeting.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, life transitions, and situations where avoidance has become a problem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying and testing thoughts that fuel anxiety or depression and practicing behavioral changes to break unhelpful cycles. It is practical for panic, social anxiety, and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people name emotions and change interaction cycles to improve connection and intimacy.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Over time they will adjust the plan together based on what helps and what feels comfortable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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