Monica Rawlings
Calm guidance for stressful life moments
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Monica
Monica Rawlings is a licensed mental health counselor who aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and cope with life changes. Her style is calm and direct, and she values clear communication and steady support.
Monica uses a mix of talk therapy and skills-based work to address problems like depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She helps clients notice patterns, try small changes, and develop better coping tools. Sessions are shaped by the person's goals and move at a comfortable pace. Her training includes Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Existential Therapy.
These approaches let her combine emotional understanding with practical strategies for daily life. Monica draws on ten years of clinical experience as an LCMHC, licensed clinical mental health counselor in Utah. She often works with issues such as grief, body image, parenting concerns, ADHD, self-esteem, and intimacy-related struggles.
Additional focus areas include chronic illness, caregiver stress, communication problems, and coping after trauma. The work can include learning emotion regulation skills, changing unhelpful thoughts, and repairing attachment patterns. Monica offers therapy in English and accepts international clients.
Sessions may be scheduled by completing the matching questionnaire and choosing from video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging formats. Costs vary with location and the subscription model allows cancellation at any time.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Monica uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. This approach helps when patterns of trust, closeness, or abandonment affect daily life and relationships.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions with specific tools and short exercises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Monica discusses goals and preferences and then recommends one or a blend of methods. The plan can change as needs evolve so clients help shape what happens in sessions.
Online formats include video, phone calls, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue progress when travel or work makes in-person visits hard. The formats also let therapists use exercises, homework, and skills coaching in ways that match each person's life and routine.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Monica
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point