About Mona
Mona Bartram is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, relationship strain, trauma, sleep problems, and major life changes. She uses a calm, practical approach and focuses on what people can do now to feel steadier. Her style is straightforward and respectful.
She encourages small steps that add up over time. She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the work.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Mona draws on two decades of experience to guide conversations and suggest tools that fit real life. Her background includes long-term clinical work across a range of concerns, including family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life matters.
She also addresses attachment concerns, abandonment worries, and symptoms that show up as impulsivity or avoidance. That variety helps her tailor support to different challenges. Mona uses clear, skill-based methods such as cognitive strategies, mindfulness, and emotion-focused exercises.
She helps people practice techniques between sessions so change can carry over into daily life. The focus is on making tasks manageable and relevant to each person’s goals. People who choose her often want practical skills, emotional clarity, and steady support through difficult transitions.
Mona is licensed in Texas as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and brings twenty years of clinical experience to her work.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, helps identify and name core emotions and strengthens how people respond to feelings in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mona will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and help choose methods that fit. Treatment is collaborative and adapted over time so techniques match real life needs and changes.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging fits quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress going between visits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English