About Monica
Monica Rawlings, LCMHC, helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship struggles. She listens carefully and meets people where they are. Her approach is steady and compassionate, aimed at making small, useful changes that fit daily life.
She focuses on practical steps to manage panic, depression, addiction-related challenges, and trauma or abuse. Monica pays attention to body image, attachment issues, and life changes such as divorce or career transitions. She also offers support around parenting strains, anger, and coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Monica uses a collaborative, person-centered style. Sessions prioritize the client’s goals and pace, with clear tools to try between meetings. She draws on methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts, build better emotional regulation, and repair relationships.
With ten years of experience and a Utah LCMHC credential, Monica brings steady clinical practice to the work. She has experience supporting LGBTQ+ people and those who are neurodivergent, and she takes cultural concerns into account when planning treatment. Therapy with Monica typically begins with a short intake and a shared plan.
She helps clients set realistic steps and tracks progress session by session. The tone aims to be direct but warm, so people can try new strategies without feeling judged.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. Online sessions can help identify patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete techniques to reduce anxiety and manage mood. These approaches are helpful for panic, depression, phobias, and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Monica collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and daily life. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan based on what helps most, so the process feels tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for exercises that need visual cues or a fuller conversation, while phone calls can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are handy for short updates, mood check-ins, or practicing skills between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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