Daija Monroe

You show up for everyone else. But who shows up for you?

While I've been in independent practice for one year, I bring over 7 years of clinical experience across community mental health, crisis intervention, school-based settings, outpatient therapy, and forensic mental health.

But here's what I really want you to know:

I understand what it feels like to carry things that are hard to put into words. To keep showing up for everyone else while quietly falling apart on the inside. To go through loss, uncertainty, or life transitions that nobody around you seems to understand.

That's the space I work in and I take it seriously.

I specialize in working with women, mothers, adolescents, and young adults (including college students) navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout, postpartum challenges, and major life transitions. I also work with first responders and healthcare workers who give so much of themselves that they often forget they need support too.

My approach is trauma-informed, down to earth, and tailored to you. I'm not here to hand you a list of coping skills and send you on your way. I'm here to walk alongside you at your pace, in your truth.

You don't have to have it all figured out to start.

You just have to take one step.

Outside of sessions I'm a mom, an author, and someone who believes deeply that healing is possible for everyone, including you.

Therapy with me is collaborative, honest, and real.

I'm not going to sit across from you and just nod. I'm going to be present with you, asking the right questions, helping you connect the dots, and walking alongside you as you figure out what healing actually looks like for your life.

My approach is trauma-informed and draws from evidence-based modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Solution-Focused therapy, and person-centered approaches. But more than any specific modality, I believe healing happens in the context of a genuine, authentic relationship between therapist and client.

That means I meet you where you are. Not where I think you should be.

We'll explore the experiences, patterns, and emotions that brought you here and we'll also build practical tools you can actually use in your everyday life. Because therapy shouldn't just feel good in the session. It should change how you show up outside of it.

My goal is simple, to help you gain clarity, build emotional awareness, and move forward with more confidence and peace than you had when we started.

You bring your truth. I'll bring everything I have to help you work through it.

Your first session is not a test. There's nothing you can say wrong.

What you can expect is a real conversation, one where I'm genuinely trying to understand you. Not just your symptoms or your history, but who you are, what you've been carrying, and what you're hoping life looks like on the other side of this.

We'll talk about what brought you here, what's been weighing on you, and what you'd like to feel or experience differently. I'll ask questions about your background, your patterns, and your goals, not to check boxes, but because I want to understand your whole picture before we start building anything together.

You don't have to have a polished story. You don't have to know exactly what's wrong or be able to explain it perfectly. You just have to show up.

By the end of our first session my goal is for you to leave feeling heard, maybe for the first time in a long time, and with a clear sense of what our work together will look like.

The first step is always the hardest. But you've already taken it by being here.