Monique Allen

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

I often use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in my practice. In your first session, we'll explore what brought you to therapy and then decide the most appropriate ways to help you make progress. With CBT, we’ll look at how your thoughts affect your emotions and experience. During treatment, I'll help you learn how to push back against those thoughts to change your feelings for the better.

Reality Therapy

Reality therapy helps to encourage problem solving and is based on the idea that people experience mental distress when their basic psychological needs have not been met. In my experience as a psychologist in a correctional environment, I have used this method in collaboration with CBT to emphasize the impact of choice in a client's actions. This helps to creates accountability for the client's behaviors. Therapy is specifically focused on the client's current state and places less importance on past experiences or the presence of mental health conditions.

Supportive

We all need to feel supported and supportive therapy helps patients and their families manage their symptoms of a disease or illness, and the side effects of treatment. It doesn't treat the underlying cause of the disease, but it can help patients feel better, have fewer symptoms, and get better faster.

Experiential Therapy

Experiential therapy has been a method used in my years of experience as a psychologist in a correctional environment. It helps clients decrease their anxiety by redirecting their focus on their personal responsibility for making decisions.

Couples Counseling

I help couples gain a better understanding of negative patterns within their relationship by identifying negative behaviors, which can be changed in an effort to improve their relationship.