About Montoria
Montoria Liggans is a licensed mental health counselor who brings three years of clinical experience to her practice in Virginia. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through trauma and abuse, and cope with grief and loss. She also assists with relationship concerns and decisions about life purpose.
Montoria emphasizes respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care. Her sessions begin with listening to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all method. That approach helps people move at a pace that feels comfortable and realistic. Montoria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to the issues presented.
She helps clients identify patterns that keep problems going and practices new ways of responding. Practical tools and homework are offered when they support progress. People often seek her help for ongoing worry, panic, or stress that affects daily life.
She also supports those coping with the emotional aftermath of trauma and the sadness that comes with loss. Relationship concerns and communication problems are addressed with clear, skills-focused work. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
She invites clients to set goals and to reevaluate them as therapy progresses. The aim is to build skills that clients can use after sessions end and to help them make meaningful changes in their day-to-day life.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Montoria draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address worry and the emotional effects of trauma. She helps clients break down anxious thoughts into manageable steps and practices coping skills to reduce daily stress. This kind of work often focuses on changing unhelpful thinking patterns and building tools for calmer responses.She also uses structured approaches that center on processing painful events and grief. That work helps people name and make sense of what happened, develop healthier ways to cope, and rebuild routines that support recovery. Sessions may include learning strategies for emotion regulation and gradual exposure to reduce avoidance.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Montoria collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and pace. She adjusts methods over time and invites feedback so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during brief breaks, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between sessions. These options make it easier to attend appointments and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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