Monica Englander, LCSW - Therapist in California

About Monica

Monica Englander is an LCSW with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people feel more capable and confident in their lives and relationships. Her work centers on improving self-esteem and managing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges.

Parents and those navigating family issues will find her perspective relevant to family and parenting concerns. Monica draws on both short-term and deeper therapeutic methods. She asks direct questions and listens closely to what matters to each person.

Background and approach

Sessions often look at how past hurts affect today’s choices and how to shift unhelpful patterns. She also uses goal-focused tools to find practical changes that relieve daily stress. Her background includes counseling across settings and supervising interns working toward licensure.

She has long experience with workplace-related counseling and employee assistance program contexts. That familiarity can help when work and home life overlap or create strain. Monica respects cultural identity and personal beliefs, and she treats what matters to clients as central to the work.

Her manner is interactive and communicative; she checks in about progress and priorities as therapy moves forward. The aim is steady change that lets people feel safer and more confident in choices. Clients typically explore past wounds, codependency, separation and divorce challenges, midlife questions, and issues around intimacy and self-love.

Monica uses a mix of talking, reflection, and targeted exercises to help people manage life transitions and rebuild a sense of worth.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Monica commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises that reduce anxiety and improve mood. Narrative Therapy helps people re-author the story they tell about themselves so past hurts feel less defining and choices feel more freeing.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit best for their goals and situation. That partnership means techniques can shift over time as needs and priorities change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family and work schedules and to keep continuity when life gets hectic. The variety also lets clients choose how they prefer to communicate on any given day, which can support steady progress.

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.

Narrative Therapy

Looking at the story you have come to tell about yourself, and where it came from. The work is in separating the problem from your identity and finding accounts that fit you better.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Monica usually address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges around self-esteem. Family matters, parenting, career stress, and midlife or life-purpose questions are also part of her focus.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is inquisitive and interactive with a mix of deeper exploration and practical tools. She listens closely, asks direct questions, and checks in about progress and priorities.

How long has she been practicing?

She has 23 years of experience working in counseling roles across individual, couples, family, and group work.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is licensed as an LCSW in California with license number CA LCSW 26012 and practices from California.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are offered?

Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How are fees and payments handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Self esteem

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 23 years
Licensed: California
Languages: English

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