About Monica
Monica Jha is a licensed professional counselor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for adults trying to regain direction after relationship problems, trauma, addiction, or identity shifts. Monica aims to help clients feel clearer about what matters and take manageable steps forward.
Monica uses practical tools alongside compassionate listening. She draws from approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness to help people notice thought patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
She also works with trauma-focused ideas to address painful memories and the ways they affect daily life. Sessions focus on small, achievable changes. Monica emphasizes skills that can be used between meetings - breathing and grounding, brief behavior experiments, and clearer communication strategies.
These techniques are chosen to fit each person’s life and pace. Her background includes nine years of clinical work in Tennessee and practice as a licensed professional counselor, LPC. That experience has included helping people with relationship strain, parenting stress, career crossroads, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation.
Monica describes her work as collaborative. She partners with clients to identify values and goals, then creates straightforward steps toward those goals. The process centers on real-life problems and real-world progress.
People who prefer direct, calm guidance and practical coping tools often find this approach useful. Monica offers video, phone, chat, and text session formats to make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, values-based steps even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It focuses on building a meaningful life rather than trying to eliminate every uncomfortable feeling. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses short experiments to test different, more helpful responses to worry and mood problems. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness, which can ease overwhelm and improve concentration.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Monica will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then recommend approaches or combine methods to match those needs. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit work into life. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief, ongoing support between meetings and can be useful for quick skill reminders or check-ins. These options make it easier to keep momentum while balancing family, work, and other demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English