Monica Rodriguez
Compassionate counselor focused on practical steps
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Monica
Monica Rodriguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience practicing in Texas. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, or depression. Monica listens first, then helps people build on their strengths to make practical changes at home and in daily life.
She takes a straightforward, respectful approach. Monica treats the person, not just the problem, and values the client’s own perspective on their story.
Background and approach
She emphasizes clear communication and practical steps that fit each person's routine and values. Her training includes client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and narrative approaches that help people reframe stressful patterns. Monica also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice long-standing patterns and solution-focused work to set short-term goals.
Sessions may involve identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying new behavior strategies, and creating small plans that feel doable. For people dealing with parenting stress, past trauma, or mood challenges, she offers a calm, steady presence and concrete tools to try between sessions. Monica offers services in both English and Spanish.
She accepts international clients and uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging depending on client preference. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a time to meet.
Online approaches that meet everyday parenting needs
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers empathy, and supports the client in finding their own solutions, which can be helpful for parents feeling judged or unsure.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and to build new habits, which can ease anxiety, panic, and mood swings.
Narrative Therapy helps people put their experiences into words and separate themselves from a problem. Rewriting how a difficulty fits into one’s life can open up new choices and lessen shame related to trauma or parenting struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try techniques, adjust course, and agree on short-term goals to track progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, to check in between appointments, and to continue work from different locations. The variety of formats supports flexibility while focusing on practical steps and steady progress.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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