About Monica
Monica Avalos is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Monica centers sessions on each person’s strengths and goals, offering steady support as they take steps toward change.
Her style is practical and down-to-earth. She listens first, then uses conversational tools to help clients notice patterns in thoughts, feelings, and the body.
Background and approach
Monica blends talking with simple, actionable skills people can use between sessions to manage strong emotions and daily stressors. Monica uses Somatic Therapy to help people tune into bodily sensations connected to stress and emotion. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build meaningful actions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills appear in sessions when clients want tools for thinking differently and tolerating distress. She works with people on a wide range of concerns including parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, identity questions related to LGBT issues, and challenges around grief, divorce, or major life changes.
Monica also supports those coping with chronic illness, attachment wounds, and feelings of isolation. Sessions aim to be collaborative and clear. Monica helps set small goals and tracks progress alongside each person.
Her approach is steady, practical, and focused on what helps clients feel more capable in daily life.
How Monica’s Approaches Work Online
Somatic Therapy helps people notice how emotions show up in the body, such as tightness, shallow breathing, or tension. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness and grounding exercises to reduce stress reactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and taking small actions toward those values. In remote sessions this often looks like defining values, setting doable steps, and practicing acceptance of difficult feelings.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Monica will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. She checks in and adjusts the plan so therapy stays practical and relevant to daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to use tools in real time where stress happens. Remote work can let people practice skills at home and follow up between visits with brief messages when needed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English