About Monica
Monica Erk uses a relational, evidence-informed approach to help people move through stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing in Indiana with 12 years of experience. Monica aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk plainly about what feels stuck and get practical tools to cope.
She blends approaches that focus on thoughts, emotions, and attachment patterns.
How Monica works
That means sessions often include looking at unhelpful thought habits, learning new emotion-regulation skills, and tracing how early relationship experiences shape current reactions. Monica adapts the pace to each person and focuses on workable steps between sessions. Monica has worked with people dealing with trauma and abuse, panic and mood disorders, addictive behaviors, and identity concerns including LGBT issues.
She also supports those wrestling with parenting strain, family-of-origin problems, grief, and questions about purpose or meaning. Sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem are common topics she addresses. Her style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and centers each person’s goals when planning treatment. Monica combines practical skills practice with conversations that explore how past relationships influence present ones. People can expect clear suggestions, skill-building exercises, and space to process difficult feelings.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session that fits the person’s needs and availability.
Monica lists 8 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How attachment work and skills training translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds influence current reactions. Online sessions use conversation and guided reflection to help people notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thought and behavior cycles and teaches concrete strategies to change them. In remote sessions this can include thought records, behavior experiments, and short homework to practice between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness through skills teaching and coaching-style practice.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, tries methods that fit those goals, and adjusts plans based on what helps. Clients often combine approaches - for example using CBT skills for anxiety while exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions remove the need for video when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or written processing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage energy levels, and continue work when travel or location make in-person visits difficult.
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