About Monique
Monique Gilcrest is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical steps people can take now to feel steadier and more capable. Her approach is calm and direct, aimed at short-term relief and longer-term skill building.
She uses a mix of approaches to match a person’s needs. Sessions include chances to talk through feelings, learn coping skills, and practice new ways of reacting to difficult situations.
How Monique works
Monique emphasizes clear goals and small, achievable changes that add up over time. Her work covers a wide range of concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting strain, and career stress. She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, age-related worries, and the challenges that can come from family-of-origin problems or divorce and separation.
Monique draws from therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy to build practical tools. She uses emotionally focused and client-centered ideas to create a welcoming, nonjudgmental space. Her eight years of experience inform how she blends these methods.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in South Carolina as well as international clients. She holds an LPC credential. People connect by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions once a therapist match is made.
Monique lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Monique works with
The areas below are the ones Monique selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck on them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward what matters, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, then teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is a hands-on approach that works well for stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with chronic health issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on goals and preferences. That shared decision-making helps shape a plan that fits daily life and what the person hopes to change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging and live chat allow for ongoing support and quick strategy practice between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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