Monica Burgos, LICSW

Monica Burgos is a clinical social worker with over 24 years of experience. She holds a DC LICSW, and she offers therapy in both English and Spanish. Monica emphasizes cultural context and personal background in her work.

She aims to make sessions compassionate and nonjudgmental. Monica uses an eclectic, holistic, trauma-informed approach and adapts methods to fit each person. She focuses on helping people with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and trauma and abuse.

Monica also helps people coping with depression, low self-esteem, major life changes, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice addresses issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication problems, codependency, and body image. She has experience supporting people through divorce and separation, blended family concerns, and family of origin issues.

Sessions are aimed at practical change and emotional healing. Monica works with children, adolescents, and adults and draws on many techniques to match the needs of the person in front of her. She highlights culturally responsive care and tries to honor each person’s values and background.

Her bilingual skills support Spanish-speaking clients who prefer therapy in Spanish. Monica describes therapy as a collaborative healing process and invites people to consider therapy as a way to process grief, trauma, and life transitions.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online work

Monica describes her work as eclectic and trauma-informed, drawing on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. For example, trauma-informed care focuses on recognizing how past harm affects current feelings and behavior and uses gentle pacing and safety-focused conversations to help people process difficult memories. Another common approach she uses involves practical problem-solving and skills-building to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve daily functioning.

Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work and is done together. Monica will talk with a person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that seem likely to help. If something does not fit, she adjusts the plan so therapy feels useful and realistic.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time. It can also make it simpler to maintain continuity of care during life transitions. Ask during the matching process about which session formats are available and how they might work for your routine.