Monica's Offered Services
Monica has a wide range of experience in the mental health field, allowing clients to decipher which is most appropriate for their needs.
Therapeutic Services
Monica has been providing therapeutic services since 2017. While Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is typically used during sessions, therapuetic interventions vary and are specific to client needs. CBT is an intervention that allows the client to assess how their limiting beliefs about themselves or the world creates a challenging feeling (such as anxiousness or depressive symptoms) and produce a behavior that may be unsupportive for the client's success. Monica works to assist clients with re-wiring their cognitive distortions and negative thoughts, through interventions such as reframing, self-compassion, meditation, analyzing the derivative of negative beliefs, and practicing acceptance of their personality traits and shortcomings. The results of these interventions is an increased self-esteem and the belief in their natural abilities.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy works well with CBT, as it uses defusion techniques to help the clients recognize that their thoughts are just thoughts until they act on them. The 6 pillars of ACT allow clients to choose helpful ways to live their life each day with the intention of minimizing symptoms. Instead of resisting and rejecting feelings or symptoms, Monica uses ACT techniques to teach clients that all feelings have a purpose and learning to accept these can actually help minimize the intensity of the symptoms.
Evauluation Services
Monica has contributed to mental health development in the school systems since 2011. Prior to building her private practice, she has worked in the secondary school system as a school psychologist. Monica is a Licensed Educational Psychologist and provides educational evaluations to primary and secondary aged youth in special education or in search of information regarding special education. Through education evaluations, Monica is able to provide families with important information on how to support their child in the school setting.
Similarly, Monica offers mental health evaluations. If education is not an area of concern, Monica can focus on the symptoms the person is experiencing and get to the root of what may be contributing to this. While diagnosis is not guaranteed, Monica's goal is to offer an in-depth assessment to help the person feel seen and understood, and find answers and solutions. All evaluations end with recommendations including accommodations and services that will likely be supportive moving forward.