About Monique
Dr. Monique Holsey-Hyman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience in New York. She focuses on stress and anxiety, and also addresses family and parenting concerns, anger, and self-esteem.
She uses clear, practical conversation to help people manage day-to-day pressures. Dr. Holsey-Hyman meets people where they are and creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for difficult topics.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to the issues each person brings.
Background and approach
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every visit. Her work often looks at patterns around attachment, communication, and control. She helps clients talk through feelings of abandonment, guilt, or isolation and to build healthier ways of relating.
Practical problem-solving is paired with attention to emotions so progress feels useful and sustainable. She also addresses life transitions such as midlife changes, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and questions about life purpose. Financial stress, caregiver strain, and issues around body image and self-love are part of her practice as well.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy inform her methods. People who prefer a collaborative, warm style tend to find her approach helpful. She explains ideas in plain language and works together with each person to set realistic goals.
Her focus is on small steps that add up to meaningful change.
Approaches that guide online sessions and support
Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that focuses on helping people find their own reasons to change. It uses reflective listening and gentle questions to strengthen motivation around issues like anxiety, lifestyle shifts, or caregiving stress.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on building practical solutions and small, achievable steps. It helps people identify what works, set short-term goals, and use strengths to move past problems such as anger, communication gaps, or low self-esteem.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and adapt methods to fit your situation. That collaboration helps choose whether a motivational, solution-focused, or blended path will be most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing, and messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between sessions. These options make it easier to work around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping momentum in therapy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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