About Monica
Monica Schneider is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Oregon with about 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps people can take when life feels overwhelming. Monica aims to help clients find clearer direction and regain a sense of control.
Monica earned a doctorate in industrial psychology and uses that background to address career concerns and transitions. She also helps people who are coping with grief, loss, depression, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Attention and concentration struggles, including ADHD-related challenges, are part of her work. Sessions tend to focus on identifying strengths and small, doable changes. She listens for what matters most to each person and then helps build strategies that fit daily life.
Expect straightforward, compassionate conversations and an emphasis on real-world solutions. Monica also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, isolation or loneliness, forgiveness work, midlife transitions, seasonal mood shifts, and obsessive or compulsive patterns. She applies evidence-based approaches in a way that connects with each person's goals.
The pace and focus are set together so progress moves at a comfortable rate. People who choose her often want clear, practical tools and an encouraging partner through change. She encourages clients to use their own knowledge about their lives while trying new ways to cope and move forward.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Monica works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses emphasizes behavioral strategies - identifying specific habits and routines to adjust so mood and daily functioning improve. This helps with depression, seasonal mood shifts, and actions that support recovery.Another frequent strand centers on problem-focused and career-related work drawn from her industrial psychology background. This involves clarifying values, mapping career choices, and setting achievable steps for workplace or vocational changes. That approach is useful for career transitions and for people feeling stuck or unfulfilled at work.
Choosing the right method is part of the work together. Monica collaborates with clients to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay relevant and helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These formats make scheduling easier and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English