About Monica
Monica Davis is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in Ohio who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She brings six years of experience from community health centers and urban schools, helping people who face stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Monica aims to create an inclusive space where people feel heard and respected.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. That can include acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values, cognitive tools to change unhelpful patterns, and attachment-focused work to look at relational patterns.
How Monica works
Mindfulness and skills-based techniques are also used to manage strong emotions and grounding during hard moments. Sessions center on building trust, setting clear goals, and learning practical skills that can be used between meetings. Monica pays attention to how identity and culture shape experience and focuses on identity-affirming care for people with marginalized identities.
She also addresses issues like grief, parenting challenges, sexual identity, and workplace stress. Clients can expect conversations that combine reflection, hands-on exercises, and breathing or grounding practices. Monica explores life stories and current challenges to help people find useful changes and relief.
The work aims to increase resilience, reduce overwhelm, and strengthen daily coping. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people name what matters, try small changes, and check what works.
Over time the goal is clearer direction, fewer crises, and more steady emotional balance.
Monica lists 12 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small committed steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and major life transitions by shifting attention toward meaningful action. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current trust and closeness. It helps people understand relational habits and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monica collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. Together they will try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan so sessions feel relevant and effective.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, processing between sessions, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep consistency, try different formats, and fit therapy into a busy life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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