About Madison
Madison Montes welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, or big life changes. She is Madison Montes, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW, who focuses on helping individuals build coping skills and clear next steps. Her tone is straightforward and supportive, and she aims to make talking about difficult topics easier to start.
Madison uses a person-centered and trauma-informed framework. She pays attention to each person’s history and current struggles, and adjusts the pace of work to fit what feels safe and useful.
Background and approach
Therapy sessions tend to focus on practical skills, understanding patterns, and making small changes that add up over time. Her background includes seven years of clinical work in Colorado, including crisis response and outpatient settings. That experience shaped how she approaches intense stress, post-traumatic reactions, and substance use concerns.
Madison draws on evidence-based practices and adapts them to the needs and goals of each person she sees. Common areas she helps with include panic and mood symptoms, addictive behaviors, problems with self-worth and body image, and coping with chronic illness or pain. She also assists people dealing with guilt, shame, forgiveness, and communication struggles.
Sessions emphasize skills people can use between meetings to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. Madison aims for an affirming, nonjudgmental space where people feel respected. She works collaboratively rather than telling clients what to do.
Her approach is practical, direct, and geared toward steady progress over time.
Online approaches that fit real life
Madison uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and understanding patterns. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and behavioral tools to reduce panic and manage anxiety in daily life. This kind of work helps when symptoms spike and people need clear steps to feel steadier.She also relies on trauma-informed methods that help people process distressing experiences at a pace that feels manageable. That approach pays attention to how past events affect current thoughts, emotions, and relationships, and it supports rebuilding safety and trust in small, doable ways.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Madison will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they pick techniques to try, adjust as needed, and focus on what makes a practical difference day to day.
Online formats in her practice include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for longer sessions and visual connection, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging allows flexible, ongoing contact between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or medical schedules while keeping progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English