Monica Mendes, BACP

Counsellor Monica Mendes is BACP registered and has 11 years of experience working with people across the United Kingdom. She helps with stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship and interpersonal difficulties, family problems, grief and loss, and self-esteem concerns. Sessions focus on practical conversation and clear next steps rather than jargon.

Monica uses client-centred work to make space for each person's priorities. That means the conversation follows what matters to the client and builds on their strengths. She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help with anxiety and low mood, and solution-focused ideas to set small, manageable goals.

Her approach is straightforward. Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, noticing unhelpful patterns, and practising small skills between meetings. Monica pays attention to relationships and attachment concerns, and can talk about how past events affect present feelings.

She also works with stress linked to caring roles and workplace strain, and with people exploring aspects of sexual identity or alternative sexual cultures. Topics such as abandonment, codependency, dissociation and control issues are within her stated focus areas.

Monica has supported people coping with major life changes, divorce and separation, and those dealing with compassion fatigue. Her style is conversational and goal-oriented, with space to notice feelings and plan practical steps. People are invited to bring whatever feels most pressing into the first session.

To start the process clients use the online matching system, answer a short questionnaire and schedule an initial session. Fees vary by location and are set within a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches used in online counselling