Monika Friend

LCSW, CADC l

Monika Friend

LCSW, CADC l

Professions: Clinical Social Worker
License Status: I'm a licensed professional.
Primary Credential: LCSW
Secondary Credential: Certified Drug & Alcohol Counselor l - 11-06-27
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Offices

Oregon City, Oregon 97045

My Approach to Helping

I seek to provide clear, direct assistance and personalized, high quality mental health treatment to youths and their families. This includes guidance in navigating the world of mental health services, collaborating with other helping professionals, coordinating care, facilitating referrals, and corroborating about strategies for treatment. Seeking mental health services can often feel unfamiliar, frightening, and frequently carries a sort of stigma with it. However, mental health problems are not a matter of being weak, deficient, or lazy. On the contrary, they result from multiple factors like illness, injury, family history, brain chemistry, and life experiences. To seek mental health services is a courageous and wise endeavor. It is my intention to encourage, facilitate, and support teens and their families in obtaining mental health services to ensure their return to healthy and adaptive functioning.

More Info About My Practice

I provide a biopsychosocial mental health assessment at your first session to help guide recommendations and future treatment. I am on multiple insurance panels and have a few slots available for those without insurance, those who are with financial hardship, or have limited means. Payment of cash or check is collected at the end of each session and fees are determined by service provided.

How Psychotherapy Can Help

It has been said that most people do not come to therapy to find solutions to their problems, but because they realized what the solution was and were terrified. Many times our issues and challenges, the places we get stuck, tend to create separation and isolation from ourselves and others, just at a time when we need to feel connection the most. Receiving assistance from a mental health provider can help normalize what you are experiencing, give you room to explore your challenges, and provide support to face any fears you experience surrounding any changes you want to make.

What I Love about Being a Psychotherapist

As far back as I can remember, I have been interested in the causes of human suffering and strategies we use to relieve it. Over the years, this interest motivated me to listen to my own pain and the pain of others, wanting to collect the knowledge and wisdom that sometimes only experience can give. Being a counselor allows me the opportunity to normalize the experience of human suffering and to build a sense of support and belonging, that is the arena where healing occurs. It feels like a privilege to be part of that process, like a sacred trust, and it inspires me to continually bring a genuine and authentic presence to my practice.

Services I Provide

  • Family Therapy
  • Individual Therapy & Counseling

Ages I Work With

  • Children
  • Teens
  • Adults

Languages

  • English

Client Concerns I Treat

  • Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues
  • Addictions and Compulsions
  • Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Breakup
  • Bullying
  • Child and/or Adolescent Issues
  • Codependency / Dependency
  • Communication Problems
  • Depression
  • Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
  • Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Emotional Overwhelm
  • Emptiness
  • Family of Origin Issues
  • Family Problems
  • Fear
  • Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
  • Inattention, Impulsivity, and Hyperactivity (ADHD)
  • Individuation
  • Irritability
  • Isolation
  • Jealousy
  • Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
  • Mood Swings / Mood Disturbance
  • Panic
  • Parenting
  • Physical Abuse
  • Posttraumatic Stress / Trauma
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self-Care
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Confidence
  • Self-Criticism
  • Self-Doubt
  • Self-Harm
  • Self-Love
  • Sensitivity to Criticism
  • Sexual Assault / Abuse
  • Shame
  • Stress
  • Trust Issues
  • Women's Issues
  • Worry
  • Worthlessness
  • Young Adult Issues

Types of Therapy

  • Anger Management
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Mindfulness-Based Interventions
  • Play Therapy
  • Psychodynamic

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