About Monica
Monica Englander is a licensed clinical social worker with over 23 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She practices in California and brings a straightforward, curious style to sessions. Monica aims to help people rebuild self-esteem and regain a sense of control in daily life.
Monica has worked in corporate and employee assistance program settings and has supervised interns working toward licensure. She sees people from many walks of life, including those in helping professions, and respects each person’s culture and identity.
Background and approach
Her background gives her a practical sense of workplace and career pressures. Her approach in sessions is interactive and inquisitive. Monica asks direct questions to understand what is making life feel unsafe or unmanageable.
She helps clients identify wounds from the past that keep repeating in current relationships and choices. Monica uses a mix of strategies to address problems both short term and long term. She aims to help clients feel more confident, make clearer choices, and reduce the hold of old hurts.
Sessions also focus on concrete skills for coping with daily stress and workplace issues. People who connect with Monica usually want a communicator who listens carefully and checks in often about progress. She prioritizes helping clients get practical results while attending to deeper issues of worth, self-love, and meaning.
Monica emphasizes collaboration and clear feedback throughout the work together.
How Monica’s Approaches Work Online
Monica often draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy when working with clients. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and practicing new, practical skills to reduce anxiety and stress. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps rewrite those stories so they support greater self-worth and purpose.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Monica will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as needed so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions can be flexible to fit a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other commitments, while still focusing on meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English