Monica Jalbert

Hello and welcome! I’m a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and have been a practicing psychotherapist for over 13 years. I believe therapy works best when it feels like a genuine partnership. My role isn’t to sit back and tell you what you “should” do. It’s to get curious with you—to understand where you are, where you want to be, and what might be getting in the way. My role is to serve as supportive witness to your journey, and to help navigate with you whatever terrain your journey presents.

I hold a Master’s degree in Social Work from Boston University and have spent my career supporting women, men, and gender fluid people through the complicated, messy, and often beautifully transformative parts of life.

My style is warm, conversational, thoughtful, and sometimes a little playful. I want you to feel comfortable being completely yourself with me—including the parts you may not feel particularly proud of or understand yet.

Think of me less as an imposing expert sitting across from you and more as a knowledgeable, support in your corner, someone who will listen without judgment, help you make sense of what you're experiencing, celebrate your progress, and—when it’s helpful—gently challenge you to look at things from a different perspective.

There isn’t one right way to do therapy, because there isn’t one right way to be a person.

My approach is integrative and individualized. I draw from several therapeutic modalities—including Client-centered Therapy, Mindfulness Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems Therapy, Expressive Approaches, Somatic Therapy and Narrative Therapy—among others and weave them together based on what feels most useful for you.

I’m interested not only in helping you find the tools to feel better, but in helping you understand why you feel the way you do.

Together, we might explore the patterns, beliefs, relationships, experiences, and stories that have shaped how you see yourself and the world around you.

Sometimes therapy is about finding practical solutions and developing tools that help you move forward. Sometimes there isn't an immediate solution, and the work is about learning how to sit with uncertainty, make room for difficult emotions, and develop greater acceptance and self-compassion.

I also believe that we can become stuck in stories about ourselves—I'm too much. I'm not enough. I always mess things up. This is just who I am. I should be further along by now. Part of our work may be getting curious about those stories and deciding whether they still serve you.

I’ll support and affirm you, but I won’t simply tell you what you want to hear. I’m comfortable gently challenging you when I think there may be another way of looking at something. My goal is never to judge or “fix” you, but to help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and the freedom to make choices that feel more aligned with who you want to be.

Our first session is first and foremost about creating safe and welcoming space together. We will start to get to know one another and begin to understand what brought you to therapy. I’ll want to hear your story—not just a list of symptoms or problems, but what life actually feels like for you right now.

We'll talk about what you're hoping will be different as a result of therapy, what you've tried before, what has or hasn't worked for you, and what you think might be getting in the way.

We'll also begin identifying some goals for our work together, while leaving plenty of room for those goals to evolve. Therapy doesn't have to be perfectly mapped out from day one.

Most importantly, I want you to feel safe, comfortable and understood. There should be room to laugh, cry, think out loud, and to change your mind.

You don't need to have everything figured out before you walk through the door. You just need to be willing to get curious about yourself.

We'll take it from there—together.

I look forward to getting to know you and joining you on this most sacred journey back home to yourself.