Monica Furgiuele

Monica Furgiuele is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She aims to make the first step toward change feel less overwhelming by offering steady, nonjudgmental support.

Monica creates a calm space where people can talk through their thoughts and feelings. She focuses on practical ways to manage anxiety and stress. She also helps people navigate grief and build confidence after difficult experiences.

Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Monica uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and follow each person's goals. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try out different coping strategies. She also brings in existential ideas when questions about meaning and life purpose come up.

Clients can expect straightforward conversations and concrete tools to use between sessions. Monica emphasizes small, manageable steps rather than big, abstract plans. She encourages reflection on values and choices while teaching coping skills for day-to-day life.

With 12 years of experience working in California, Monica draws on both short-term strategies and deeper exploration depending on what a person needs. She supports people through compassion fatigue and end-of-life issues as well as social anxiety and body image concerns. Her style is warm, attentive, and practical.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. Online sessions can preserve that listening style by giving people space to tell their story and set the pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emphasizes identifying thought patterns and testing new behaviors; this can work well online because worksheets, behavioral experiments, and homework are easy to share and review together. Existential Therapy helps people look at meaning, choices, and life purpose when those questions feel urgent, and these conversations can unfold over a series of remote sessions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, concerns, and how they prefer to work. Together they decide whether brief, skill-focused CBT work, deeper client-centered exploration, existential conversations about meaning, or a mix of these approaches makes the most sense.

Specific session formats are not listed here, so confirm the available options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and making scheduling more flexible. It also lets people use written materials and worksheets between meetings to practice new skills and track progress.