About Mona
Mona Bartram helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with sleep problems, career concerns, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and questions of self-esteem. Mona is an LCSW licensed in Texas with 20 years of experience.
Mona uses straightforward, practical work in sessions. She listens first and helps people identify what matters most to them. Then she offers tools drawn from several approaches to help change unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
How Mona works
Sessions are paced to the client's needs and goals. Her approach often combines acceptance and commitment strategies with cognitive behavior techniques. She also draws on client-centered and emotionally focused ideas to strengthen how people relate to themselves and others.
Dialectical skills can help with intense emotions and impulsive reactions. Mona respects the strengths people already have and helps them build on those resources. She talks clients through real-life skills like managing worry, improving sleep routines, and handling difficult conversations.
Her work includes attention to issues such as abandonment, attachment challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns. People who choose her find a calm, steady presence and practical homework to try between sessions. The goal is clearer values, better coping, and more satisfying daily life.
Getting started involves a short matching process and scheduling that fits each person.
Mona lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Mona works with
The areas below are the ones Mona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by encouraging committed steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and build better routines. That approach often helps with worry, sleep problems, and mood changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding emotions in relationships and improving emotional connection when that is a focus of concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the client's needs and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are helpful when visual cues matter, phone sessions can fit into a busy day with less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and to use skills between visits.
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