About Monique
Monique Murray is a licensed clinician in Maine with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, relationship struggles, bipolar disorder, and major life changes. She approaches each person with respect and listens first to understand what matters most in their life.
She believes the person in front of her is the expert on their own story. Sessions focus on building on strengths and finding realistic steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and aimed at clearer thinking and better coping. Monique works with people facing both short-term crises and longer patterns that cause pain. She pays attention to challenges like caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, body image, communication problems, and separation or divorce.
She also addresses personality-related concerns such as avoidant or dependent traits and antisocial features when they affect functioning. Her approach is practical and collaborative. Monique helps people identify small changes that lead to more stable days.
She explains options, checks what makes sense, and adjusts the plan as needs change. To begin, she asks straightforward questions to match goals with the right format and pace. People who want clear direction, honest feedback, and help turning insight into action often find this approach useful.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Options
Monique uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and improved coping. One common approach emphasizes learning concrete skills to manage anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. Another approach targets mood and behavior patterns by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of acting that bring steadier days. These methods are aimed at reducing distress and improving daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that suit the person. The plan is adjusted over time based on what is most helpful, making the process collaborative rather than fixed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, mood tracking, or step-by-step guidance between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English