About Monica
Monica Cruz is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Louisiana with 16 years of experience. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand each person's situation. Her work focuses on practical steps clients can take to feel better and handle daily challenges.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addiction issues, grief, and ADHD. Monica also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy struggles, attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and eating issues, and work or career stress.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past trauma and losses affect current life. Monica uses a mix of familiar therapy methods including client-centered work, attachment-focused listening, cognitive behavioral tools, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. She favors clear, manageable goals and small steps that fit each person's life.
Sessions are practical and grounded in everyday problems rather than abstract theory. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they need and try new ways of coping. Monica helps people break big problems into smaller tasks and track progress over time.
Her style combines steady support with concrete strategies to change routines and habits. People who want help organizing thoughts, improving communication, reducing overwhelm, or changing unhelpful patterns often find this approach useful. Monica works with clients to set realistic goals and build skills that last beyond the session.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Monica uses client-centered work that focuses on what matters to the client and builds on their strengths. This approach centers conversations on the client's goals and preferences and helps people feel heard while they figure out next steps.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking patterns and habits, and can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and coping skills.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Monica will talk with each client about their needs and goals and try methods that fit their situation. She adjusts plans over time so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to schedule regular work and try new strategies without traveling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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