About Monica
Monica Cowan is a licensed professional counselor in Oregon with ten years of practice. She focuses on helping people find motivation, build self-esteem, and gain confidence. She also supports career challenges and navigating big life changes.
Monica frames the first step as an act of courage and meets people where they are. In sessions she creates an open environment for honest conversation. She encourages clients to name what matters and to set small, real goals.
Background and approach
Monica uses clear, direct tools to break problems into manageable steps. She often works on practical strategies for stress, sleep, anger, and day-to-day coping. Monica draws on client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on each person's values and goals.
She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas help make changes feel doable and immediate. Her background includes a decade of varied clinical work and professional coaching.
That mix influences a pragmatic style that balances listening with action. Monica pays attention to life context, including caregiving roles, health changes, and multicultural concerns. Sessions are offered in English and accommodate people dealing with grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and aging-related issues.
Monica aims to make therapy concrete and useful, so that progress can be tracked and adjusted as needed.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Monica uses client-centered therapy to keep the sessions focused on what each person values and wants to change. That means she listens for priorities and adjusts the pace so goals feel meaningful and doable. Cognitive behavioral therapy is also a central tool; it helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with actions that reduce stress and improve sleep and mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Monica collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and daily routines. She checks in on progress and adapts plans when something isn't working so effort stays productive and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat and messaging are good for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching prompts, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity during life changes and busy seasons.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English