Monica Burgos, LICSW

Monica Burgos is a bilingual licensed clinical social worker with over 24 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults through a range of life challenges. As a LICSW (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker), she combines extensive training with a practical, client-centered focus to address issues like anxiety, depression, adjustment difficulties, grief, and trauma.

She honors the role culture plays in shaping experience and communication, offering therapy in both English and Spanish to better meet the needs of diverse clients. Monica adapts her work to each person she meets, using an eclectic and holistic set of strategies while maintaining a trauma-informed perspective that attends to safety, pacing, and the impact of past harm.

Monica has developed specialized experience supporting relationship and intimacy concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses self-esteem, body image, codependency, communication problems, and career or life transition challenges. Her practice emphasizes culturally responsive care that respects each individualâs background and values.

Throughout her practice she aims to create a compassionate, non-judgmental, and supportive environment where clients can explore their goals and build practical coping skills. She looks forward to partnering with individuals on their healing and growth journey.

Trauma-Informed and Culturally Responsive Online Care

Monica uses a trauma-informed approach that recognizes how past stress and harm affect current thoughts, emotions, and relationships. This method focuses on pacing, safety, and building coping skills to address trauma, grief, and related symptoms in a way that respects each personâs limits and strengths.

She also employs an eclectic, holistic approach that draws on evidence-based techniques tailored to the individual. That means Monica blends practical strategies to address anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions while attending to cultural context and personal values.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Monica collaborates with clients to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what is most helpful, making the process a shared effort that honors client preferences and needs.

Online therapy with Monica offers flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit care into busy lives or manage access when in-person visits are difficult. These options support continuity of care and allow clients to engage in therapy in the format that feels most comfortable and useful.