About Monica
Monica DuShane brings nine years of clinical experience to her work in Ohio. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - and also holds an Ohio independent social work license, LISW. Monica focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and big life changes.
She spends sessions listening closely and helping people name what matters most. Monica uses straightforward techniques to manage symptoms like worry, low mood, sleep trouble, and anger.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and the stress that comes with caregiving or chronic health issues. Monica blends several well-established approaches to meet a person where they are. She draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities and uses cognitive-behavioral tools to change thinking and behavior patterns.
Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy help with intense emotions and improved coping. Sessions tend to focus on clear, doable steps. Monica helps people set goals, try new strategies between sessions, and track what helps.
She also supports exploration of deeper patterns when that feels useful, using psychodynamic ideas to look at early influences on current struggles. Her style is calm, practical, and respectful. Monica aims to help people build resilience, repair relationships, and reduce the daily strain of life.
English-language sessions are offered in formats that fit different schedules, including live video, phone, chat, and text-based messaging.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support
Client-centered therapy emphasizes following the person’s priorities and building sessions around what matters most to them. It helps people feel heard and directs work toward personally meaningful goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing everyday stress.
Dialectical behavior therapy offers skills for handling intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills are helpful when emotional ups and downs or strong reactions interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest approaches to try. Treatment can be adjusted over time based on what works best.
Online therapy with Monica is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit different schedules. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text suit quick check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work breaks, caregiving routines, or days with limited travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Ohio
- Languages
- English