About Monique
Monique Paulus is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, goal-focused therapy to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She brings 13 years of experience and prefers clear, down-to-earth conversations about what is happening now and what can change next. Her work often centers on life transitions and mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms.
She also helps people manage anger, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify small, achievable steps that reduce distress and increase day-to-day functioning. Monique draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She uses motivational interviewing to support change when substance use or other patterns feel stuck.
Trauma-focused methods are offered for people processing painful or overwhelming experiences. She has experience with first responder stress, adoption and foster care issues, blended family patterns, and caregiver strain. Other areas include relationship communication, sexual expression and kink, grief, and co-occurring mental health and addiction concerns.
Monique works with people dealing with ADHD, identity questions, and career stress. Monique holds an LCSW credential and practices in Idaho. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She focuses on collaborative planning and practical strategies you can use between sessions.
How Monique’s Approaches Work Online
Monique uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and everyday stress because it focuses on clear steps and practice between sessions.She also uses motivational interviewing to support people who want to make changes but feel stuck or ambivalent. This approach helps clarify personal reasons for change and builds motivation without pressure. For those processing painful events, trauma-focused therapy targets how past experiences affect current safety and coping, and it helps build skills to manage strong emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monique collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and the specific problems they bring. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone can work with lower bandwidth, chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and to use tools that match each person’s comfort and schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Arizona, Idaho
- Languages
- English