About Monique
Monique Rourk is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, relationship struggles, and self-esteem concerns. Her approach is down-to-earth and nonjudgmental so people can talk without feeling rushed.
Sessions are relaxed and goal-focused. Clients take an active role in choosing what to work on and which tools to try. Conversations can be mostly talk therapy or can include skill-based work depending on the person's needs.
How Monique works
Monique uses an integrative style that leans on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas. She also draws from dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to build practical skills. The focus is on developing self-awareness, coping skills, and emotional stability.
She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, anger, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, communication problems, and sexual concerns including BDSM and kink topics. Monique received a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and holds licensure in multiple states, including Michigan.
Her style aims to help people reduce harmful patterns, manage intense feelings, and make choices that lead to a more satisfying life.
Monique lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. The therapist reflects what is said, helps people feel heard, and supports them in setting their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches concrete techniques to change behavior and mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships and distress tolerance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with talk-focused, client-centered sessions, adding CBT tools for mood and thinking habits, or using DBT skills when emotions feel overwhelming.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and can fit into busy days. These options help people access licensed professionals from different locations and make therapy easier to fit into life.
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