Mondie Gonzales
Guided, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LCSW, LISW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mondie
Mondie Gonzales is a licensed clinical social worker who practices in Ohio. She holds a Masters in Social Work and brings 15 years of experience as an LCSW and LISW. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Mondie centers the work on the therapeutic relationship and treats people with respect and clear goals. She has long experience in community mental health and opened a independent practice a decade ago.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first, then helps clients name what they want to change. She uses straightforward tools and tailors techniques to each situation rather than a single recipe. Mondie helps people sharpen life skills so they can make clearer choices.
She talks through ways to set boundaries, manage stress, and improve communication within families. She also supports partners and people dealing with grief, anger, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship strain. Her approach draws on client-centered methods and practical strategies like cognitive behavioral work and solution-focused thinking.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are also in her toolkit when they fit the situation. The focus is on what feels doable and helpful for each family or individual. Sessions aim to define goals in plain language and then break steps down into manageable actions.
Mondie emphasizes collaboration: clients bring expertise about their lives and she brings tools and experience. This makes the work practical and focused on real change.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects understanding, and helps the client define what matters most. This fits issues where feeling heard and understood is the first step toward change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear steps to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes simple exercises to try between sessions and can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and stress. Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, practical changes and on what works now to move toward goals quickly.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Mondie will collaborate with each person or family to choose methods that match needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time as progress and priorities become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit conversations into busy schedules and keep continuity when in-person visits are difficult. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, assign brief exercises, practice communication, and check progress between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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