About Monica
Monica Rodriguez is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas with 13 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting concerns, anger, and depression. Monica works in both English and Spanish and accepts international clients.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions are a place to sort through difficult thoughts and feelings and to make clear, usable plans for change.
Background and approach
Monica uses approaches that match a person’s needs. She draws on client-centered work to listen closely and follow what matters most to the client. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and try new coping skills over time.
She also uses narrative therapy to help people reframe painful events and psychodynamic ideas to notice repeating patterns created by early experiences. Solution-focused techniques help set small, concrete goals so progress is visible between sessions. People who reach out can expect a calm, direct conversation with practical steps to try between meetings.
Monica aims to help clients manage symptoms, strengthen coping, and move toward clearer daily routines. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort level.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Monica commonly uses client-centered therapy, which means she listens closely and follows what matters most to the client. This approach helps people feel heard and guides the pace of the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is also part of her practice and focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying practical skills to reduce anxiety, panic, or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting as needed rather than committing to one fixed method up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, brief coaching, and messaging between longer sessions to keep momentum and practice skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish