About Monica
Monica Purvis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is direct and caring, aimed at helping clients build useful routines and coping skills.
Monica has 21 years of experience in counseling. She uses simple, goal-focused methods to help people get unstuck. Sessions often include talking through specific problems and trying small changes between meetings.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centered work to make space for each person's perspective. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Solution-focused tools help set clear, achievable short-term goals.
Monica is comfortable addressing parenting challenges, family conflict, and the emotional fallout from trauma or loss. She also supports people dealing with addiction, anger, low self-esteem, and impulsivity. Her approach is down-to-earth and aimed at making daily life a little easier.
Clients should expect straightforward conversation, practical homework, and a steady focus on what they want to change. Monica practices in Georgia and conducts sessions in English. She tailors the pace and techniques to each person's needs.
Approaches and online options for clearer goals
Monica uses client-centered work to focus on each person's experience and priorities. This approach means sessions begin by listening, then shaping the plan around what matters most to the client, which can help with family stress, grief, or feeling overwhelmed.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, impulsivity, or ADHD-related struggles.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Monica will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Together they set short-term objectives and adjust methods as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for a fuller conversation when schedules allow. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats let people fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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