About Monika
Monika Broecker helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of experience. Monika speaks English and German and practices from California.
She emphasizes grounding in the present and practical steps that bring relief. Sessions focus on small, manageable changes that reduce overwhelm. Monika uses methods that connect thoughts, bodily experience, and daily routines to ease symptoms.
Monika blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with somatic work to address how the body and mind interact.
How Monika works
She also draws on solution-focused techniques to set clear goals and track progress. This mix helps people who want direct tools and those who want to understand deeper patterns. Her background includes work with trauma, grief, addictions, and identity concerns.
She also supports people with issues around attachment, body image, eating, and communication. Parents and people juggling career stress often seek practical coping strategies. Sessions move at a steady, collaborative pace.
Conversations may include breathing and body awareness, skill practice, and short experiments to test new behaviors. Monika aims to make therapy accessible and to help clients build routines that last.
Monika lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Monika works with
The areas below are the ones Monika selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, German |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that connect thinking and the body for online care
Monika commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Somatic Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety or depression. Somatic Therapy brings attention to bodily sensations and movement, which can help with trauma, anxiety, and stress by using breathing and simple body-focused practices.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize thinking skills, body awareness, or short goal-focused experiments.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for asynchronous support, quick reflections, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try methods that match a person’s routine.
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