About Desiree
Desiree Monroe brings a client-centered approach to therapy and pairs it with practical tools from cognitive and mindfulness-based therapies. She is listed with the credentials MD, LCPC and has built a practice that focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma-related concerns. She emphasizes simple, concrete steps in sessions.
Conversations often focus on coping skills, managing strong emotions, and breaking down big problems into small, doable actions.
Background and approach
Desiree also uses techniques to tackle substance use, impulsivity, and motivation for change. Her background includes work across outpatient and inpatient settings starting in 2009. That experience exposed her to a wide range of challenges including mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and issues connected to adoption and foster care.
She has also supported people facing caregiver stress and first responder-related strain. Therapy with Desiree tends to be collaborative and practical. She listens for what matters most to each person, then tailors strategies from CBT, DBT, and motivational approaches to those goals.
Sessions aim to build skills that carry over into daily life and improve relationships, self-esteem, and day-to-day functioning. People who reach out can expect straightforward conversation, goal-focused planning, and compassion. Desiree frames therapy as a joint process of figuring out steps forward, handling setbacks, and celebrating progress along the way.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. It helps people feel heard and guides the therapist to shape goals that matter to the client.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood-related problems because it offers practical exercises to use between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal skills. It is often used for impulsivity, emotion regulation, and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that fit the person's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning helps shape a clear path forward with check-ins and adjustments as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work on skills outside scheduled appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English