Monetta Givens

Monetta Givens is an LPC with 26 years of experience in counseling. She spent a decade as a licensed addiction counselor in inpatient settings before earning her license as a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she brings that background into her current work. She focuses on women’s issues along with depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, stress, and relationship concerns.

Her approach is practical and skills-focused. She teaches emotional literacy and uses cognitive behavioral tools like thought records, identifying triggers, and coping skills training. She also includes psychoeducation, journaling, relapse prevention strategies, and stress and anger management techniques in sessions.

Monetta emphasizes a person-centered stance. She supports each person’s right to self-determination and offers a nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship. Her aim is to help people set clear goals and make steady progress toward them.

She encourages learning about oneself to reduce shame, guilt, and feelings of emptiness. Sessions often focus on building mastery over problems that once felt overwhelming. The work includes practical exercises to practice between sessions.

Clients can expect guidance toward clearer communication, improved coping, and renewed purpose. Monetta frames healing as a day-by-day commitment and invites people who are ready to take active steps toward their goals to begin the process.

Evidence-based techniques and working online

Monetta draws on cognitive behavioral approaches that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building coping skills. This method uses tools like thought records, cognitive distortion work, and activity planning to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and to manage stress and anger.

She also emphasizes psychoeducation and relapse prevention strategies. That work involves learning about triggers, practicing journaling and coping skills, and developing concrete plans to handle setbacks, which can be especially useful after trauma or during mood disorder management.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and may adjust techniques as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, require less travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. Licensed professionals can tailor session length and focus to suit work or family routines, helping people build skills that translate into everyday life.