Monique Gilcrest, LPC

Monique Gilcrest is a licensed professional counselor who helps people carry the weight of stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps people can use now to feel steadier and clearer. Monique works with adults facing relationship strain, parenting pressures, career shifts, and the long haul of chronic illness or caregiving stress.

She favors a warm, client-centered way of working that treats each person as the expert on their life. Sessions focus on identifying what matters to the client, building coping skills, and trying small behavior changes to test what helps. Monique draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy depending on the situation.

Her practice pays attention to real-world challenges like first responder strain, forgiveness and guilt, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and the effects of isolation. She also supports people through family-origin issues, divorce and separation, and intimacy-related problems. Monique aims to make therapy practical and relevant to daily life.

Monique has eight years of clinical experience as an LPC in South Carolina. She brings that background to work with people coping with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood challenges, and complex grief. The goal is steady progress through small, manageable steps.

People who choose her often want a collaborative therapist who listens, helps sort priorities, and builds concrete tools to manage emotions and relationships. International clients may be considered and sessions are conducted in English. To confirm current session options, readers should check details before booking.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It aims to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity when anxiety or depression feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test new ways of responding to stress and mood changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on understanding and naming emotions to improve connection with oneself and others and can help with intimacy-related distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. That plan is adjusted as therapy proceeds so techniques match what actually helps the person in their daily life.

Please confirm which session formats Monique currently offers before booking, as the profile does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use different skill-building exercises between meetings so progress continues outside sessions.