About Monika
Monika Sury is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical steps that ease daily strain and help people feel more steady in their emotions. Monika works to create a supportive space where clients can be heard and understood as they sort through difficult feelings.
She guides clients in seeing how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.
How Monika works
That helps uncover patterns that keep problems going and points to concrete changes. Monika introduces tools for managing anxiety, improving mood, coping with stress, and setting firmer boundaries. Her approach is compassionate and nonjudgmental.
She emphasizes building self-compassion and healthier habits rather than quick fixes. Sessions are aimed at real-world improvements people can use between meetings. Monika also addresses issues tied to attachment, adoption and foster care, abandonment, and blended family stress.
She supports people coping with chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and codependency. Autism and Asperger Syndrome related challenges are included in her areas of focus. She offers therapy in English and Hungarian and works with international clients.
Monika practices in California and brings a steady, calm presence to sessions. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and then schedule time based on the therapist's availability.
What Monika works with
The areas below are the ones Monika selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English, Hungarian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and practical care
Monika uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on what helps in daily life. One common approach she uses looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions to identify unhelpful patterns and replace them with healthier responses. This kind of work is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress management. Another approach focuses on building emotion regulation and coping skills so people can handle intense feelings and setbacks with less overwhelm. That practice supports recovery from trauma, grief, and ongoing stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
The original biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, and remove commuting time. It can also let someone choose an appointment time that works around work, caregiving, or medical needs. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to everyday life so progress continues between sessions.
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