Monica Massengale , LIMHP

Monica Massengale brings six years of clinical experience to her work, approaching therapy as a supportive partnership focused on helping people find purpose, balance, and greater well-being. She frames her role as someone who listens, teaches practical skills, and guides clients through moments of insight so they can move forward more confidently.

Monica has direct experience across a variety of clinical settings. She volunteered in a hospice clinic for about one year, supporting people and their families through end-of-life moments. She spent almost two years at an addiction and homeless center, where she worked with individuals and led groups. She also spent three years at a therapy agency working with families, survivors of abuse, and children, using trauma-focused methods to help clients manage symptoms and build healthy coping strategies.

Her approach is non-judgmental, kind, gentle, and goal driven. Monica helps clients recognize both difficult and positive feelings, validates those experiences, and teaches skills to view feelings as feelings rather than facts. She emphasizes collaboration - clients do the work and she provides guidance, education, and steady support during the process. Monica draws on a range of clinical approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT, Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to tailor care to each person’s needs.

Monica holds the credential LIMHP, which stands for Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner. Her clinical interests include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationships and family concerns, sleep difficulties, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also focuses on aging and geriatric issues, attachment and caregiver concerns, codependency, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, hospice and end-of-life counseling, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, obsessive-compulsive concerns, postpartum and perinatal issues, seasonal mood changes, and self-love.

Across these areas, Monica aims to help people identify their own answers, learn practical tools, and continue growing toward a more balanced and fulfilling future.