About Mondie
Mondie Gonzales is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience and a long history in community mental health. She holds a Master of Social Work and has spent decades helping people find clearer paths through difficult times. Mondie works from Ohio and offers therapy in English for a wide range of concerns.
She keeps sessions practical and down to earth. Mondie focuses on building a strong relationship first.
Background and approach
She helps clients name what they want, set realistic goals, and break changes into small steps. Sessions often include straightforward tools to manage stress, anxiety, anger, and mood concerns. Mondie has long experience with trauma and grief work, and she supports people facing relationship and parenting stresses.
She also addresses challenges such as ADHD, career shifts, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns. Additional focus areas include communication problems, caregiver stress, and separation or divorce issues. Her style blends client-centered listening with problem-solving techniques.
She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing to help people try new ways of thinking and acting. Mondie emphasizes collaboration and practical exercises between sessions. Clients can expect a clear, goal-oriented plan that grows out of their priorities.
Mondie helps people name their values, set boundaries, and take steps that fit their daily life. She encourages small, measurable changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns back, and helps clarify values and goals. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to sort through confusing feelings and decide what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions teach simple techniques to notice unhelpful thinking, test assumptions, and try small behavior changes. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing anger in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they adjust techniques and plan practical steps that fit the client's life and schedule.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face from different places. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when video is not needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick updates, coping tools between sessions, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or travel without changing the work itself.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Oregon
- Languages
- English