About Monica
Monica Cowan welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about their next steps. She focuses on building confidence and motivation so clients can face career questions, parenting stress, or major life changes. Monica is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with ten years of experience in Oregon.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through worries and sort priorities. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most and create small, practical steps toward change.
How Monica works
Monica often works on sleep struggles, grief, anger, and stress from caregiving or health challenges. Her background includes helping people with career transitions, managing ADHD-related challenges, and coping with postpartum changes and seasonal mood shifts. She also supports those dealing with cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and financial stress that affects daily life.
Multicultural issues and communication breakdowns are also part of her focus. In session she blends straightforward tools and reflective listening. Techniques draw from client-centered conversations, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work.
The goal is practical progress rather than jargon-filled therapy. Monica offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She works with each person to set clear goals and adapt methods as needs change.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
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.
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit into online therapy
Monica uses client-centered work to make conversations feel focused on the person's experience and goals; this approach emphasizes listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, provides clear tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monica discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods to what helps most. That collaboration means techniques can shift over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online sessions via video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation when that helps. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing support between sessions and can be useful for brief coaching, tracking goals, or quick problem-solving. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and other life demands.
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A practical next step
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