About Monica
Monica Duncan is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 24 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people navigate relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and problems with intimacy. Monica aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and straightforward for worried parents and adults seeking change.
She keeps sessions practical and calm. Monica listens first to understand what matters most. Then she helps set simple goals and steps that fit daily life.
How Monica works
Her style blends warmth with clear direction so people can try new ways of coping between visits. Monica uses methods that focus on the person in the room and on changing thoughts and patterns that cause trouble. She also works with emotional connection issues and short-term solutions to move problems into clearer view.
That mix allows work on immediate needs and on deeper relationship patterns. Over more than two decades she has helped clients through family conflict, blended family issues, divorce and separation, infidelity, and caregiving stress. She also supports people coping with fertility concerns, hospice and end-of-life issues, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Monica pays attention to body image, commitment worries, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Sessions are offered in English and are held with Michigan-based licensure. Monica encourages practical steps, steady support, and honest conversation as people work toward clearer communication and stronger coping skills.
Monica lists 4 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Monica's Approaches Work Online
Monica commonly blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people make concrete changes. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client’s lead so people feel heard and understood. It helps when someone needs space to process emotions and find their own answers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers practical tools to change them. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that affect relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Monica will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods. That choice is collaborative and can shift as needs change during therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit easier into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are good for quick check-ins, brief problem-solving, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy family and work schedules.
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A practical next step
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