About Monique
Monique La Ruth Hart is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience. She practices in Florida and focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Her work also addresses depression, grief, anger, and struggles with self-esteem.
She uses a practical, person-focused style. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Monique listens for what is most pressing and helps people find steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background blends client-centered ways of building trust with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Those tools help people spot unhelpful thinking, try new coping skills, and manage strong emotions. She also brings mindful practices into sessions to reduce racing thoughts and increase calmness.
Monique often supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, life purpose questions, or the fallout from trauma and disaster. She also works with issues related to first responder stress, veterans and armed forces experiences, and the emotional impact of cancer. Sessions can include short skills coaching, thought reframing, and practical problem solving.
The aim is to build skills that fit everyday life. Monique helps people set small, achievable goals and notice progress over time.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the clinician. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual. This approach helps build trust and decide which skills to try next.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches concrete strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers tools for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. It includes skills for emotion regulation and clearer communication when stress is high.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. That team approach helps shape a plan that feels doable.
Online therapy makes meeting more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when a video link is not possible. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and a way to follow up on practice assignments. These formats help people keep momentum without changing their daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Delaware, Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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