About Monica
Monica Dada (Barham) helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and ADHD. She offers steady, practical support for relationship and family concerns, eating and body image struggles, and work or career stress. Monica is an MD and a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, and she brings 20 years of clinical experience to her practice in Maryland.
She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused. People can expect clear discussions about current problems, simple strategies to try between sessions, and attention to how daily life affects mood and focus.
Background and approach
Monica uses approaches that encourage people to notice their values and move toward them while building skills for coping and routine. Her work often blends acceptance-based ideas with cognitive tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. She also draws on motivational interviewing to support change and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals.
Monica adapts these methods to each person's needs and pace. Monica has experience helping people with chronic illness, caregiver stress, blended family issues, fertility and sexual identity concerns, and HIV/AIDS related challenges. She pays attention to overlapping conditions like co-morbidity and compassion fatigue, and she addresses practical obstacles that make daily life harder.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Fees vary with location and session type, and therapy uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Monica uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify their values, accept difficult thoughts, and take small actions that align with what matters to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and the frustration that comes with ADHD and chronic stress.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and test different behaviors. CBT often focuses on concrete steps to change routines, improve sleep and concentration, and reduce avoidance or unhelpful reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monica collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts tools over time so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let you talk face-to-face, phone sessions work when internet is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or ongoing reminders. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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