About Monika
Monika Sury, LCSW, brings 12 years of clinical experience to work with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She frames therapy as a place where clients can feel heard and supported while learning practical skills. Monika emphasizes developing tools for managing difficult emotions and changing unhelpful patterns.
Her style is compassionate and nonjudgmental. She helps people see how thoughts, emotions, and actions connect. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what small changes could feel manageable.
Background and approach
Monika aims to help clients set boundaries, build self-compassion, and handle stressful situations more effectively. She often works with people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and the stress of caregiving. Other areas she addresses include chronic illness and pain, body image, codependency, communication problems, and coping after disasters.
This range of focus areas supports clients with layered or complex challenges. Monika practices as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California. She offers sessions in English and Hungarian, and she accepts international clients.
Her approach centers on collaboration - she and the client decide which skills and strategies to try first. If you are looking for practical coping tools and steady support, Monika helps people work toward more balance and resilience. Prospective clients start by completing a short questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
How therapeutic methods guide online work
Many clinicians use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach coping skills and change unhelpful patterns. One common method focuses on identifying and shifting thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety and stress; it helps people learn concrete exercises to reduce worry and improve mood. Another approach emphasizes emotional processing and safety in the relationship with the therapist to address trauma and grief; it supports gradual exposure to difficult memories and building tolerance for strong feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which techniques to try based on goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan over time.
Many people find online therapy useful because it can fit more easily into a busy life - sessions can be scheduled around work, caregiving, or travel. Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it simpler to keep regular appointments, try shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time while focusing on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hungarian
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