About Monique
Monique La Ruth Hart is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and related concerns. Her practice is based in Florida and focuses on clear, practical help rather than jargon.
Monique uses straightforward conversation to uncover what matters most to each person. She listens for patterns that cause distress, then helps clients try different ways to respond.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for stress, emotion regulation, and improving communication. Her background includes long experience supporting caregivers and people coping with major life events. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, cancer-related stress, and challenges veterans and first responders may face.
Monique brings steady, calm attention to difficult topics. Clients can expect a collaborative approach. Monique draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior tools, and mindfulness practices to suit the person in front of her.
She works with people to set clear, achievable goals and track small steps forward. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled in formats that fit busy lives. Monique explains options and helps each person pick what will work best for their situation.
Her aim is to make therapy practical and manageable for everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening and reflecting so people can find their own solutions and build self-trust. This approach is helpful when someone needs understanding and space to make sense of feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people try small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when practical steps are needed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monique will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative process helps make sure the plan fits the client and can be adjusted as needed.
Online therapy gives flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client talk face to face when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a less visual check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, skill practice, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or other time constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Delaware, Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English