About Monica
Monica Avalos is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Monica centers sessions on the client's goals and strengths to help them move forward.
She believes people know their own story and brings a steady, respectful presence to the conversation. Sessions emphasize clear steps and skills you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Monica uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs rather than one fixed method. Her work often addresses life transitions, parenting challenges, career decisions, and the emotional effects of loss and change. She also supports people dealing with self-esteem, isolation, and issues tied to adoption, attachment, or immigration.
Monica talks through practical ways to manage overwhelming moments and rebuild routines. In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness and acceptance-based tools are used to help people live alongside difficult feelings without being ruled by them.
Monica also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions and improve day-to-day coping. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist will find a straightforward style. Monica helps clients set small, achievable goals and track progress over time.
She supports clients as they practice new habits and adjust plans based on what actually works.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and decide what matters most to them. It uses practical exercises to build actions that line up with personal values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. It teaches clear strategies to test those thoughts and try new habits, which is useful for stress, low mood, and managing ADHD-related routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and daily demands. That joint process makes it easier to adjust techniques when something isn't working.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when a video call won't fit, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit care around work, school, or family responsibilities and to keep momentum with regular check-ins. Licensed professionals can use these options to tailor pace, contact frequency, and skill practice to each person's routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- 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
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