Monica Farrer, LCMHC

Monica Farrer is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and jealousy. She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.

Monica works in a respectful and down-to-earth way. Conversations and plans are shaped to fit each person’s situation. She focuses on what matters to the client and breaks goals into clear, doable steps. Her approach is practical and supportive rather than one-size-fits-all.

With 11 years of experience, Monica draws on several well-known approaches. She uses client-centered methods to keep therapy focused on the person's own goals. She also integrates cognitive behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns.

Mindfulness and dialectical strategies are part of her toolkit when emotions feel overwhelming. Motivational interviewing techniques may be used to work through ambivalence about change, especially around addiction or habit shifts. Sessions emphasize skills you can try between meetings.

Monica aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable. She will listen, help set priorities, and work with clients on practical strategies. People who want clear, compassionate guidance for life transitions and relationship concerns often find this style useful.

How Monica’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and perspectives. In practice this means the therapist listens closely and shapes sessions around what the client says matters most, which helps when tackling relationship stress, parenting strain, or feelings like jealousy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers clear exercises and tracking tools to try between sessions, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and habit change.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for handling intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful for anger, impulsivity, and situations where emotional regulation feels difficult.

Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adapt plans as progress is made. This collaborative process helps tailor tools and pace to each person.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Discussing practical scheduling needs and preferred ways of meeting happens during the initial steps so sessions fit day-to-day routines.