Monica Duncan, LMSW

Monica Duncan is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with 24 years of clinical experience. She works with adults around relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, and related concerns such as intimacy issues and career stress. Monica uses straightforward, evidence-informed techniques and focuses on helping people manage problems that affect daily life and relationships.

Her sessions are practical and goal-oriented. She listens to what matters most and helps people make concrete changes. Expect a mix of conversation, skill-building, and short exercises that you can apply between sessions.

Monica draws from Client-Centered Therapy to foreground each person’s perspective, and from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas when attachment or closeness issues come up, plus Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, achievable steps forward.

Over two decades of work have included helping people cope with life changes, family conflict, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and issues like infertility, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and forgiveness. She also addresses compassion fatigue and the strain that comes from caregiving roles.

Sessions emphasize practical tools for managing anger, reducing reactivity, and repairing communication. Monica encourages steady effort, honest feedback, and regular check-ins on progress. She asks clients to treat therapy as a collaborative process focused on real-world improvement.

How Monica's approaches translate to online sessions