About Monica
Monica Rawlings is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and relationship concerns. She keeps sessions straightforward and supportive so clients can focus on what matters most. Her style aims to make hard conversations feel manageable and purposeful.
Monica combines body-focused somatic work with attachment-informed and client-centered care. That means she pays attention to how emotions show up in the body, and she centers each person’s values and experience when planning next steps.
Background and approach
Practical skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches are added when helpful to reduce symptoms and improve coping. She has ten years of experience working with issues like grief, body image, parenting strain, intimacy difficulties, and major life changes such as divorce or career transitions. Monica also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and the fallout of past abuse.
Her practice includes attention to co-occurring problems and complex stressors. Monica seeks to create an affirming, nonjudgmental space for LGBTQ+ clients and for people who identify as neurodivergent. She listens for what matters to each person and adapts her pacing accordingly.
Therapy moves at the client’s rhythm rather than following a fixed template. To begin, Monica invites a clear discussion of goals and concrete next steps. Sessions emphasize practical tools, increased self-understanding, and small changes that build momentum over time.
How Monica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic work helps people notice where stress and emotion live in the body. Online sessions can guide simple breath, movement, and grounding practices to shift those sensations and reduce overwhelm. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; therapists help clients name those patterns and try new ways of relating in day-to-day life.Client-centered therapy centers the person’s values and goals. That means the therapist follows the client’s lead, listens without judgment, and adapts techniques to match what feels useful. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process; the therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods collaboratively so treatment fits the person’s needs.
Online formats offer flexibility for different rhythms and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and guided body awareness work. Phone sessions can be less visually demanding yet equally focused. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or to process difficult moments in short exchanges. These options help people stay consistent with therapy while balancing work, family, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English