About Monica
Monica Erk is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Indiana. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
Monica uses straightforward talk and practical tools in sessions so people can start making changes right away. She combines approaches that focus on how people relate to others and how they manage thoughts and emotions.
That means sessions may include looking at attachment patterns, learning specific behavior skills, or working through painful memories. Monica adapts what she uses to fit each person’s needs and goals.
Monica often helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, mood disorders, panic, and self-harm thoughts. She also supports those facing life transitions, career strain, parenting stress, and struggles with self-esteem and intimacy.
LGBT concerns, ADHD, and bipolar disorder are among the areas she addresses. Her style is warm and interactive.
Monica asks practical questions, teaches coping skills, and guides conversations about family of origin issues, guilt, shame, and forgiveness. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build clearer ways to handle conflict and emotional pain.
People who work with Monica can expect a collaborative process. She will help set goals, try techniques that fit daily life, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how those patterns affect feelings and safety. Online sessions using this approach look at how past and current relationships shape reactions and help build new ways to connect. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into specific steps and teaches practical skills to change them; it works well for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce intense reactions and self-destructive patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and daily routines and then suggest a mix of techniques. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so the methods match what the person needs and prefers.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice relationship skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and can help people process thoughts as they occur. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on attachment, thinking patterns, emotional skills, and trauma processing.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English