About Monica
Monica Davis is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Ohio. She brings six years of practice experience across community health centers and urban schools, offering grounded support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles. Her work blends body-aware methods with talk therapy.
She uses somatic approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, client-centered techniques, and cognitive-behavioral tools. Sessions focus on practical skills, emotional understanding, and noticing how the body holds experience.
Background and approach
Monica aims to create a space where identity matters. She emphasizes culturally responsive, liberation-informed care that respects diverse backgrounds and marginalised identities. The goal is to help people feel seen while they work on issues like depression, trauma, parenting challenges, or questions about sexuality and intimacy.
In sessions she prioritises building trust and setting clear, meaningful goals. Work may include mindfulness exercises, experiential activities, and attention to bodily sensations that connect to emotions. She also pays attention to attachment patterns and life story to help people understand repeating dynamics.
Monica describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people develop skills for coping with change, managing anger, improving self-esteem, and navigating career or life-purpose concerns. Her practice aims to support steady steps toward resilience and clearer self-understanding.
How somatic work and evidence-based approaches translate online
Monica draws on somatic methods and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people connect body and mind. Somatic work invites attention to breathing, posture, and bodily sensations to reduce tension and process emotional responses, which can help with trauma, anxiety, and stress. ACT focuses on values and committed action while teaching skills to notice painful thoughts without getting ruled by them, useful for depression, avoidance, and life transitions.Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will check in about your goals, preferences, and how you respond to different techniques, then tailor sessions to what helps you most. That means trying practical exercises and adjusting them as you go so the work feels doable and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you practice breathing and guided exercises together, phone options can be less formal, and chat or text allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and continue care across distances while working toward clearer coping skills and emotional balance.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English