Monica Furgiuele

Monica Furgiuele is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 12 years of experience. She works with adults who are feeling stuck, stressed, or unsure about what comes next. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. Monica also focuses on body image, communication problems, control issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, and social anxiety and phobia.

Monica favors a conversational, straightforward approach. She creates space for people to talk through what matters to them and to name the pressures that feel overwhelming. Sessions are practical and grounded - she listens, reflects, and offers questions and strategies people can try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify thought and behavior patterns that keep stress and anxiety active, then work to shift them.

Client-Centered Therapy is part of her practice, which means the client’s experience and values shape the focus of sessions. Existential Therapy is another influence; this helps when people are wrestling with meaning, direction, or life transitions. Monica combines these approaches to address immediate symptoms while also looking at bigger life questions like purpose and priorities.

She asks curious, direct questions and helps people set small, manageable steps. Sessions aim to make daily life feel more manageable and to untangle the decisions that follow big changes. To begin, readers are encouraged to follow the site's process to match and schedule a first session.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening to the client’s experience and letting that shape session goals. Online sessions using this approach tend to prioritize what matters most to the person right now and adjust pace and topics based on feedback. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts, feelings, and behaviors into workable steps. In an online format CBT can include short exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments to try between meetings. Existential Therapy brings direct questions about meaning, responsibility, and choice; it can be helpful when people are rethinking purpose after a major change.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Monica will help clients decide which methods feel most helpful based on their goals, daily life, and preferences. That conversation is collaborative and may shift as issues change over time.

Confirm the specific session formats available before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and avoid travel time. These practical benefits can help people keep therapy consistent while they test changes and work toward clearer priorities.