About Monica
Monica DuShane is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience helping people through major life changes and emotional challenges.
Background and approach
She holds LCSW and LISW credentials and works from a strengths-based, individualized perspective to address concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Monica draws on both short-term and deeper approaches to tailor care to what each person needs.
Her practice emphasizes practical skills and emotional insight to support improved communication, healthier relationships, and greater self-compassion. She also assists clients coping with career transitions, chronic health conditions, caregiving stress, intimacy and family issues, and end-of-life or hospice related concerns.
Monica aims to help clients build resilience, process guilt and shame, and create realistic plans for daily functioning and long-term change. Monica works in English and provides sessions from Ohio.
She uses evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, psychodynamic reflection, dialectical strategies, and client-centered support to guide the work. Her approach is collaborative and adaptable, focusing on practical coping tools as well as exploration of meaningful patterns and goals.
Approaches and Accessibility in Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy centers the client's experience and priorities, creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist helps the person explore goals and resources. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines skills training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help people manage intense emotions and relationship challenges.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the therapeutic journey. Monica collaborates with clients to select methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adapt techniques over time to find the right combination for progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care from different locations within Ohio. These formats support regular skill practice, check-ins between sessions, and varied communication styles so clients can engage in ways that feel most comfortable and effective for them.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Monica address?
What is Monica's general therapeutic style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is Monica licensed and practicing?
Does she provide services in other languages or to international clients?
What session formats are available for therapy?
How are sessions billed and what do they cost?
How can someone begin working with Monica?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Ohio
- Languages
- English