About Monica
Monica Erk is a licensed marriage and family therapist who practices in Indiana. She has 12 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life transitions. Monica works in a warm, interactive way and aims to treat clients with respect and compassion.
Her background includes long experience supporting people after physical trauma and emotional abuse. She also addresses struggles with attention differences such as ADHD, mood disorders, panic attacks, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
Monica blends practical skills with emotional work so people can manage symptoms and strengthen connections. In sessions she uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and attachment-based approaches. She adapts the plan to each person, combining skill-building, emotional processing, and communication work.
Conversations focus on clear steps clients can try between sessions. Monica is trained as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - and has worked in counseling and coaching roles across clinical settings. Her experience totals a dozen years supporting people through grief, parenting strain, career uncertainty, and intimacy issues.
She offers multiple ways to connect, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time that fits their needs. Monica aims to support steady, practical progress tailored to each person's goals.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Attachment-based work helps people notice and change how they relate to others; it focuses on emotional connection and patterns that affect trust and closeness. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and collaborates to pick or blend methods that fit the client's needs. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions focus on practical progress.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and work well for skills practice and deeper processing. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when clients need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging provide flexible, ongoing contact between sessions and can help people use skills in real time or check in during difficult moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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