About Monica
Monica Cruz guides people through change with a clear, steady approach. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in Louisiana with 16 years of experience. Monica focuses on practical steps people can take now to feel better and handle stress.
She listens without judgment and helps set small, manageable goals. Monica often starts by getting a simple picture of what is most pressing. She then works with each person to build a plan they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Expect straightforward strategies for anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also helps with parenting stress, grief, body image, and work-related pressures. Her background blends client-centered care with approaches that focus on attachment and thinking patterns.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior methods to teach coping skills and improve communication. Couples tools from the Gottman Method inform work on commitment and communication problems. Sessions move at a pace set by the person seeking help.
Monica breaks goals into small steps and reviews progress regularly. She incorporates coaching-style guidance when helpful and adjusts plans as life changes occur. Monica offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, the process asks for a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Monica combines attachment-based and client-centered approaches with cognitive behavioral techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating. Client-centered care focuses on listening and responding to the person’s priorities, making room for their values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and habits, teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Monica will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then tailor methods to match those needs. She treats the choice of techniques as collaborative and revises plans if something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while maintaining consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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