About Monica
Monica DuShane is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people through major life changes and emotional strain. She brings nine years of experience as an LCSW and an LISW to straightforward, practical sessions. Monica keeps conversations grounded so clients can make small, useful changes that add up over time.
Her work centers on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also supports people facing career shifts, parenting stress, caregiving burdens, chronic illness, and the lasting effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Monica pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns without assuming a one-size-fits-all path. Monica uses somatic ideas alongside talk-based methods to help people notice how their body and emotions connect. She also draws on client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, and mindfulness practices.
Sessions aim to build coping skills, reduce overwhelm, and strengthen daily routines. People who prefer a calm, steady approach often find her style a good fit. Monica focuses on practical steps and clear goals while honoring each person’s pace.
She explains options and works with clients to try what feels most helpful. Monica practices in Ohio and provides services in English. Her stated credentials are LCSW and LISW with license details available as needed.
To begin, she asks people to share their concerns and priorities so therapy can be tailored to their situation.
Approaches that combine body awareness and practical skills
Monica blends somatic ideas with talk therapies to help people notice how tension, breath, and posture relate to emotions. Somatic work encourages simple body-based awareness and gentle exercises to reduce stress and support regulation, which can help with anxiety, trauma symptoms, and chronic pain.She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize listening and the client's own goals. This approach creates space for people to guide the pace and topics of therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy, another common element, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to improve mood and daily functioning.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify which methods feel most useful, adjusting techniques based on needs, goals, and comfort level. This helps ensure sessions are tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and real-time interaction, while phone sessions remove the need for video. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, written check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity of care across different settings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Ohio
- Languages
- English