About Monica
Monica Torres is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She practices in Arizona and focuses on building practical skills that make day-to-day life easier. Her tone in sessions is warm and direct, aiming to help people feel understood and steady.
Monica uses straightforward methods to reduce symptoms and improve coping. She helps clients recognize unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems alive.
How Monica works
Sessions often include brief skill practice, goal-setting, and checking what works between visits. She pays attention to how identity and life experience shape distress. That means exploring how discrimination, cultural pressures, or gender-related concerns affect mood and relationships.
Monica also helps people who feel lonely, overwhelmed by caregiver roles, or stuck after major life changes. Trauma work is paced to feel manageable. She can use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, mindfulness, and skills from other approaches to help people process painful memories and build tolerance for strong feelings.
The focus is on reducing distress and improving daily functioning. Monica emphasizes working together to set clear goals. She helps clients track progress and adjust strategies as needed.
People leave with concrete tools and a plan for moving forward.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How Monica Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Monica commonly brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing into online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. EMDR helps people process traumatic memories in a paced way so those memories feel less overwhelming.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness exercises to help manage strong emotions and increase moment-to-moment awareness. These tools are introduced collaboratively so the client and therapist can decide which techniques fit best with the client’s goals and comfort level.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Monica partners with each person to assess needs, try methods, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps people feel more in control of their progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or people who prefer typed communication. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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