Malissa Monaghan
Calm, practical support for emotional challenges
LMHC New York
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Malissa
Malissa Monaghan is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York with 25 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and relationship and family concerns.
Background and approach
She works with a wide range of issues including grief, sleeping problems, parenting and fatherhood questions, anger, career difficulties, bipolar mood disorders, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include autism and Asperger Syndrome, co-morbidity, communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and social anxiety and phobia.
Her style blends evidence-based tools and a person-centered stance, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused techniques to tailor work to each individual’s needs. Malissa emphasizes building resilience, practical coping strategies, and clearer communication while attending to deeper emotional patterns that influence current difficulties.
She aims to help clients identify strengths, reduce distress, and navigate transitions with greater clarity. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and scheduling is arranged according to availability in New York.
Malissa practices in English and holds NY LMHC 000217.
Approaches and Online Care That Fit Your Needs
Malissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Client-Centered Therapy as core parts of her approach. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress, and it often includes practical exercises clients can use between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance that prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace of change, helping people feel heard and supported as they explore personal challenges.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to consider their goals, preferences, and life circumstances and then combine methods that best match those needs. This collaborative planning helps tailor sessions so that techniques are useful and relevant to what the client hopes to achieve.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from home or work, maintain continuity during life transitions, and use brief check-ins or longer conversations depending on what works best for the client.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
New York
Languages
English