About Monica
Monica Rawlings is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and major life transitions. She works with individuals dealing with relationship strain, grief, addiction, and ADHD. Monica uses a calm, straightforward style so conversations feel direct and useful.
She focuses on building stronger self-awareness and clearer communication. Sessions often center on practical steps people can try between meetings. Monica aims to make progress feel manageable instead of overwhelming.
Background and approach
Her work draws on attachment-based ideas that look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop healthier habits. Dialectical skills are woven in when people need tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Monica brings ten years of clinical experience and holds an LCMHC, licensed in Utah. She has supported people through trauma, mood challenges, and identity-related concerns, and pays close attention to each person's background and values. That experience shapes how she tailors goals and pacing.
In sessions she prioritizes collaboration. Clients set goals and Monica offers techniques, reflections, and gentle accountability. She helps people try new approaches, notice what works, and adjust plans when needed.
Starting typically involves a short intake to clarify goals and choose a working plan. Monica supports people who want concrete skills as well as those wanting deeper personal exploration.
How Monica’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current behavior. Online sessions use discussion and reflective exercises to notice patterns and try new ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behavior. In remote sessions this often includes short homework, thought records, and behavior experiments that people can practice between meetings. Finding the right approach is part of the journey. Monica will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies based on what is helping. Online formats offer useful flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief skill coaching, or when written reflection feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, manage follow-up tasks, or use skills in the moment. Monica uses the available formats to support consistent progress and adapt to each person’s routine and pace.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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