About Monica
Monica Avalos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Monica emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach that centers the client's own strengths and goals.
She listens first and helps people name what matters most to them. Sessions often combine skill building with reflection so clients can manage strong emotions and make steady changes.
How Monica works
Monica uses straightforward tools to lower anxiety, improve mood, and increase confidence in everyday life. Monica supports people navigating parenting challenges, career decisions, identity concerns including LGBT issues, and attention-related difficulties such as ADHD. She also works with issues tied to abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, and immigration stress.
Her practice includes attention to chronic illness, aging concerns, fertility and relationship transitions like divorce and separation. Her style blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and mindfulness practices. Monica draws from these approaches to help people develop clearer values, practical coping strategies, and better emotional regulation.
She keeps sessions collaborative and goal-focused. People who reach out can expect a warm, nonjudgmental presence and concrete steps to try between sessions. Monica frames progress as small, steady changes rather than overnight fixes.
She helps clients build tools they can use long after therapy ends.
Monica lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Monica works with
The areas below are the ones Monica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match their values. In online sessions this often looks like goal-setting, values exercises, and trying brief behavioral experiments between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns by practicing new skills. Online CBT typically uses structured steps, homework exercises, and tracking tools to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs. Sessions can adapt over time if one approach feels less helpful, and clients are invited to give feedback about pacing and focus.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen exercises. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to send quick updates, practice skills in the moment, or fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, parenting, or travel.
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A practical next step
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