About Monica
Monica Bowens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in North Carolina. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with life changes, and work through relationship and parenting concerns. She also supports people facing grief, intimacy-related issues, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Monica uses a strengths-based, practical style. She focuses on small, doable steps that move people toward their goals. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, and she aims to help clients build skills they can use between meetings.
How Monica works
Her approach mixes listening with active problem solving. Monica draws on client-centered work to prioritize each person’s values and experience. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and solution-focused techniques to set clear, short-term goals.
Monica brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice. That background includes attention to family of origin issues, blended family and parenting strain, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver stress. She also works with topics like codependency, commitment challenges, and communication problems.
People who meet with Monica can expect a collaborative process. She helps clients clarify priorities, try practical strategies, and adjust plans when needed. Sessions aim to leave people feeling more capable and with concrete next steps.
Monica lists 5 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. In practice this means the therapist listens carefully, reflects what matters to the client, and supports choices that fit that person’s life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change thought patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood, and it teaches practical tools to test new behaviors.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their concerns and goals, try techniques that fit those priorities, and adjust methods over time. Clients and the therapist work together to pick approaches that feel useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for longer therapy sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, flexible exchanges for coaching, check-ins, and timely support between longer sessions.
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