About Monica
Monica Fray meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that help them feel steadier day to day. She works with adults who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, or major life changes. Monica points out strengths people already have and uses those strengths to move toward clearer goals.
She knows that reaching out for help takes courage and treats that step with respect. Monica is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in Texas with three years of professional experience.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people through grief, caregiver strain, chronic illness or pain, and mood concerns. She also addresses issues tied to family of origin, communication problems, and substance use challenges. Her sessions are collaborative and straightforward.
Monica draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s lead, and uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot patterns that contribute to feeling stuck. Mindfulness and narrative tools help people notice thoughts and rewrite difficult parts of their story. In a session she often helps set small, doable goals and practices skills to manage anxiety or lift mood.
She pays attention to how life roles, stress, and past wounds shape current struggles. Conversations aim to be honest, calm, and focused on next steps. Monica offers therapy by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging, which can fit busy schedules.
To begin, a short questionnaire matches you and then you schedule a time that fits your routine.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Monica blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness practices to shape online sessions that feel useful and doable. Client-centered therapy means she listens closely and follows the person’s priorities, helping people name what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing small experiments to change them. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment calm.Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. Monica will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try options together. The plan can change as progress is made so the approach stays matched to needs and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offers flexibility for different days and tasks. Video gives face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging works well for shorter updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English