Monica Davis, LISW

Please note - Current Scheduling Notice: Monica Davis is currently navigating a recent family loss and will be traveling for services within the next month. She is accepting new referrals, but prospective clients are asked to check her Announcements Page for upcoming travel dates that may temporarily affect her usual availability: https://sites.google.com/liberationpathwaystherapy.com/monicalisw-betterhelp-ohio/home/announcements

Monica Davis is a licensed clinical social worker in Ohio holding the LISW credential, which stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker. With six years of practice that includes work in community health centers and urban schools in Columbus, she has supported people facing a broad range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, trauma, parenting struggles, and questions around identity and sexuality.

Her therapeutic stance is integrative and trauma-sensitive, drawing on healing-centered, liberation-focused, culturally responsive, and neuroscience-informed principles. Monica provides identity-affirming care that honors diverse identities and values, with particular attention to the needs of people from marginalized communities. She offers therapies designed to address trauma-related treatment goals and attends to attachment patterns, mindfulness, and somatic-informed practices as part of therapy.

Monica frames therapy as a collaborative process built on trust, clear goals, and respect. She explores life stories and the different parts of a person in ways that feel authentic to each individual, and incorporates experiential activities and mindfulness exercises to foster self-awareness and emotional balance. Monica maintains a commitment to ongoing professional learning so that her work reflects evolving evidence and techniques. For more on working together and her online practice policies, see her Working with Monica page: https://sites.google.com/liberationpathwaystherapy.com/monicalisw-betterhelp-ohio/home

Typical weekly availability is Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 11:00am to 7:30pm, and Tuesdays from 12:00pm to 3:45pm. For a snapshot of upcoming session openings, she posts a calendar here: https://sites.google.com/liberationpathwaystherapy.com/monicalisw-betterhelp-ohio/home/monicas-bh-calendar#h.ll3hx6d619kt

Therapeutic approaches and online care with Monica Davis

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take guided action even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. It emphasizes practical skills for handling stress, anxiety, and life transitions while supporting meaningful behavior change. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships that develop from early bonds and helps people understand how those patterns affect current connections, intimacy-related concerns, and family problems. Work in this approach often explores how to build more secure ways of relating and to repair attachment ruptures. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, nonjudgmental listening, and collaboration so the person feels heard and supported while they lead the pace and focus of treatment.

Monica approaches the choice of methods collaboratively - she will work with each person to identify which combination of approaches best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. Finding the right therapeutic style is part of the process, and adjustments are made over time as goals and circumstances evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility by making sessions available through video calls, phone appointments, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and access care from locations across Ohio. Licensed professionals can effectively use these modalities to deliver the approaches described above while supporting clients in building skills, processing experiences, and working toward their goals.