Monica Mendes , BACP

Monica Mendes is a counsellor with over 11 years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, low mood and depression. She also supports clients facing relationship and family problems, grief and life transitions. Monica works with issues around self-esteem, anger, intimacy and compassion fatigue, and she offers understanding around LGBT concerns and trauma and abuse.

Monica takes a respectful and sensitive approach in sessions. She adapts conversations to what each person needs and sets small, practical steps to make progress. Sessions aim to be straightforward and down to earth, with an emphasis on what feels useful day to day.

Her work draws on client-centred principles, helping people feel heard and understood before moving on to practical strategies. She also uses mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when people want to clarify goals and try short-term changes.

Monica has particular experience supporting people dealing with attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency and communication problems. She also works with people affected by autism and Asperger syndrome, avoidant and dependent personality patterns, dissociation and the challenges of separation and divorce.

People who choose Monica can expect a calm and compassionate space where practical options are discussed. She invites clients to set the pace and to shape goals that fit their life. Her approach balances listening with clear steps to move forward.

Approaches that shape online work and outcomes

Monica uses client-centred approaches to make sure people feel heard before any practical work begins. This means sessions start with understanding your perspective and priorities, which helps build trust and clearer goals.

She also draws on mindfulness therapy to help people notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept up by them. Mindfulness can be useful for anxiety, stress and managing strong emotions in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Monica will work collaboratively to decide whether client-centred listening, mindfulness practice or short-term solution-focused techniques best fit your needs and preferences. Goals and methods are reviewed together as progress happens.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.