Monique Gardner, LCSW

Monique Gardner, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), is licensed in Virginia and has five years of clinical experience. Gardner helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self esteem, depression, and ADHD using person-centered and solution-focused methods. Gardner also works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and kink and alternative sex culture concerns.

Gardner uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered techniques. Sessions emphasize practical skills. Gardner blends motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and brief solution-focused work to help people develop coping strategies and clearer goals.

Clients can expect straightforward conversations that focus on identifying stressors and building direct ways to manage them. Gardner names strengths and offers tools such as behavioral experiments, values clarification, and emotion regulation skills. Progress often includes concrete steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Gardner’s background includes work with dual diagnosis, post-crisis care, grief, behavioral and mood disorders, eating disorders, OCD, psychosis, and trauma. That clinical experience informs treatment choices and helps when problems overlap or are complex.

Sessions are conducted in English. International clients are not accepted. Before booking, confirm current session formats and scheduling details as those specifics are not listed here.

How Gardner’s approaches work in remote sessions