About Monika
Monika Broecker is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed. She also supports those struggling with relationship strain, grief, addictive patterns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Monika speaks English and German and practices from California as an LMFT.
Monika uses a body-aware approach alongside problem-focused talk therapy. She combines Somatic Therapy with solution-focused methods to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and then try practical steps to reduce it.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to pair gentle attention to bodily sensations with clear goals and small, doable changes. Her work also draws on cognitive and psychodynamic ideas. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Psychodynamic ideas are used to look at repeated patterns that come from early relationships and affect current life. Clients can expect a calm, purposeful style that balances feeling and thinking. The therapist listens for patterns in emotions, behaviour, and the body, then collaboratively chooses what to try next.
Progress is measured in practical steps rather than abstract promises. Monika has 14 years of clinical experience and holds the LMFT credential. She offers sessions through video, phone, live chat, and messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on the therapist's availability.
How Somatic and Talk Approaches Work Online
Monika combines Somatic Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Somatic Therapy helps people tune into bodily sensations and notice how stress shows up in the body; it can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and chronic tension. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which methods fit best, based on symptoms, goals, and personal preference. That collaborative process can shift over time as needs change and progress is seen.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, continue work while traveling in-state, or choose the communication style that feels safest. The combination of body-focused attention and practical CBT tools translates well to remote sessions, offering continuity and flexibility for ongoing care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, German