Monica White
I'll help you process, organize, and clarify your own set of values and priorities to make choices and decisions that will help you accomplish your major life goals. We can look at the experiences in your life that are causing you to feel indecisive and stuck.
As a trained yoga teacher, golfer, and founder of an active tennis group, I'm energetic and warm.
And together, we will create a realistic plan of action that feels right for you.
First session
Our sessions are fun and collaborative. I use interactive "mind-mapping" on white boards with graphs, markers, and drawings to help my clients visualize and gain a better understanding of how intentional core skills impact the quality of their daily experience. We'll build a roadmap - a foundational mindset skill framework - that helps folks see how practical, essential, evidence based "core" psychology skills build over time; helping you feel more confident through each stage of life. I make sure to cover core basics such as: self-care, self-esteem, boundaries, communication/assertiveness, lifespan growth/development, and decision making skills. We will also have deeper conversations about how to build emotional and psychological health through whole life-span development from: childhood to adulthood (to help you thrive in marriage/healthy relationships and intentional parenting) - all the way to older age transitions such as retirement. We'll normalize conversations around health, career/money/finances, relationship concerns, family planning; and how to practice healthy/secure attachment skills for resilient, emotionally mature, long-lasting, loving, authentic relationships.
Strengths
As a trained yoga teacher, founder of an active tennis group, and golfer - I'm proactive and productive. Just like a golf coach with a golf simulator, we will map out practical work in sessions. Once I outline the framework/foundation - you'll begin to see how developing mature habits and relationship skills will help you feel more secure in your life. We'll practice skills regularly in a "therapeutic setting" - removing anxiety and indecision blocks - so that you'll be able to ask for what you need, want, and desire in your actual life and be able to build a life that feels intentional, secure, realistic, and sustainable.
Ideal clients
Many of my clients are working through specific challenges such as creating daily self-care habits, working through academic/career dynamics, and navigating dating/relationship levels of growth, and building a life plan that accomplishes their major life goals. I help my clients increase their clarity and quality of life by working with them to build their foundational skills and core sense of self; and by developing mindset, motivation, identity, personal values, and interpersonal skills; along with higher level relationship skills such as effective communication, secure attachment, healthy power/control dynamics, trust/safety challenges, higher level intimacy/sex conversations, and discussions about men and women's issues to promote curiosity and understanding of differences between couples in relationships.
Treatment methods
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I'll help you find your own personal brand of values to make choices and decisions that will help you accomplish your major life goals. We can look at the experiences in your life that are causing you to feel indecisive and stuck. And together, we will create a realistic plan of action that feels right for you.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I help college/graduate students and professionals in these areas: anxiety, stress management, career counseling, relationships, communication/social skills, decision-making, and self-esteem/self-awareness. Sessions are collaborative; and I often use interactive "mind-mapping" on white boards with graphs, markers, and drawings to help my clients visualize and gain a clearer picture of how decision making impacts the quality of their daily experience; and how whole life-span development builds on multiple levels of psychological tasks, virtues, and values through Erikson's Stages of Development from childhood to old age.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- MassachusettsLicense LMHC10636
- New YorkLicense 007856