Desiree Monroe

Desiree Monroe is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Maryland. She draws on a client-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, and changes in life. Her style emphasizes practical steps and steady support to help clients navigate difficult moments.

She brings 16 years of counseling experience working in outpatient and inpatient settings. That experience includes supporting people affected by substance use, trauma, mood disorders, and post-traumatic stress. She has also worked with those connected to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and relationship or parenting concerns.

Desiree uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices to teach emotion regulation and grounding skills. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas guide shorter-term goal setting and behavior change.

Her work often centers on building coping skills for life transitions and reducing the daily strain of mental health challenges. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill practice, and honest conversation. Clients who want practical tools for mood, addiction recovery, self-esteem, or life-purpose issues may find this approach useful.

Desiree aims to create a respectful, steady space where people can make changes at their own pace. She encourages collaboration and sets realistic steps so progress feels manageable. Those interested in beginning can use the site’s Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a session.

How counseling approaches guide online work

Desiree commonly draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior ideas when structuring sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what matters most to the person, allowing goals to emerge from the client's own priorities. Cognitive behavioral methods help identify thought and behavior patterns and teach practical skills to change them. Dialectical behavior therapy offers focused tools for managing intense emotions through grounding, distress-tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, daily routines, and what feels most useful. She then suggests techniques to try and adjusts the plan based on the client's feedback and progress, keeping decisions collaborative throughout treatment.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy days, allow shorter check-in sessions when needed, and reduce travel time. It also makes consistent skill practice and follow-up simpler for people juggling work, caregiving, or school commitments.