Monica Sosa, LCSW

Monica Sosa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New Mexico. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and challenges related to relationships and parenting. Monica uses clear, practical techniques and keeps sessions calm and respectful.

Monica brings eight years of clinical experience and a background in family studies and social work. She draws mainly from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Client-Centered Therapy, and adapts methods to fit each person's situation. That can mean using skills work, emotion regulation strategies, or problem-solving tools based on what a person needs.

Her work often addresses complex trauma, mood disorders, substance use, and issues that follow adoption or foster care. She also helps with attention difficulties, social anxiety, and coping after losses. Monica emphasizes straightforward steps people can try between sessions to make daily life more manageable.

Parents find her practical when they want new ways to handle family conflict or to try positive and attachment-informed parenting techniques. She aims to help people reduce unhelpful patterns and build more reliable routines and responses at home.

Monica values a warm, easygoing manner and treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She partners with clients to set goals and works at a pace that feels comfortable. If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady support and practical direction.

How Monica Uses Structured Approaches in Online Care

Monica regularly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaching practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes listening, validation, and working at the client’s pace to build trust and clarity in goals.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation or intense reactions are a problem. DBT adds concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Monica will talk about options, try methods that fit a person’s needs, and adjust as progress and preferences are observed. She works with clients to set clear goals and decide which techniques to use in sessions and as between-session practice.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat allows brief real-time check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection or short updates. These options make it easier to schedule appointments and keep continuity while working on goals.