Monica Cowan, LPC

Monica Cowan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oregon with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people build motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Monica also helps with career challenges and coping with life changes. She offers supportive coaching for professionals navigating transitions and goals.

Monica creates an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak about what matters to them. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to day-to-day coping skills. She draws on client-centered work to listen closely and tailor the pace to each person.

Monica uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness exercises and solution-focused steps are used to test what works between sessions. Motivational interviewing supports people who want to make lasting change but feel stuck.

Her wider focus includes stress, anxiety, grief, sleep problems, parenting concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Monica also lists aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, cancer, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and multicultural concerns among areas she addresses. The goal is practical progress that fits a client's life and values.

She works with each person to set clear, manageable goals and to track progress. Monica invites people to try a first session and see how the approach feels for them.

How Monica Uses Talk and Skill Work Online

Monica works with people using client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered work emphasizes understanding each person's experience and setting a comfortable pace. This helps when someone needs time to talk things through and feel heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and supports trying small, practical changes to reduce stress and improve sleep or mood.

She also draws on mindfulness practices to teach simple attention and breathing skills. These skills can reduce reactivity and help with anxiety or sleep problems. Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process; Monica will help you decide which methods suit your goals, preferences, and day-to-day life as you try them together.

Check the platform to confirm which session formats Monica is currently offering before you book. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins during a work break, or avoid travel time. It also lets people practice skills between sessions in the places they live and work, so therapy can focus on real-life changes rather than only ideas.