About Monica
Monica Guerrero is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. Monica practices in New York and provides therapy in English and Spanish.
Her work is direct and practical. She helps people who are coping with major life changes, chronic illness or pain, and caregiver stress. She also addresses panic attacks, social anxiety, feelings of emptiness, and issues around forgiveness, guilt, and shame.
Background and approach
Monica emphasizes building self-love and a clearer sense of life purpose. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that fit into daily life. She listens for what feels most useful and adapts tools to each person’s situation.
Her background includes long clinical experience across state lines and many years supporting people through loss and medical challenges. That experience shapes a steady, calm way of working through hard moments and transitions. People who choose Monica can expect culturally aware care and practical strategies for coping.
Her bilingual skills allow English and Spanish speakers to explore feelings and try new ways of managing stress and relationships.
Evidence-based techniques adapted for online care
Many clients find short-term, focused methods useful for anxiety and panic. Techniques used in this practice often include structured breathing and stepwise exposure for panic attacks, which help reduce immediate fear and build confidence facing triggers.For depression, therapists commonly use behavioral activation approaches that encourage simple, daily actions to lift mood. These small changes help people regain energy and a sense of purpose when motivation is low.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit the person’s needs. This is a collaborative process that can be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good when visual cues help the conversation. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or shorter touchpoints between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New York, California, New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish