Monique Rourk, LMHC, LPC

Monique Rourk is a licensed counselor with two clinical credentials - LMHC and LPC - and more than two decades of professional experience helping people navigate emotional and relational challenges. She holds a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling, and her training includes focused work with trauma and related recovery approaches. Monique’s style is relaxed, down-to-earth, and empathic; she emphasizes meeting each person where they are and creating a collaborative, goal-focused space for change.

Her approach is integrative, drawing primarily on client-centered principles and cognitive behavioral techniques while also incorporating skills from dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative and solution-focused methods, and trauma-informed practices. Sessions blend evidence-informed strategies with practical skill building so clients gain tools for emotional regulation, better communication, and improved day-to-day functioning.

Monique works with a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and family issues, grief and loss, self-esteem and body image, intimacy-related challenges, and mood disorders such as bipolar disorder. She also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, codependency and communication problems, domestic violence and separation, and sexual concerns including BDSM and alternative sex culture. Her work often focuses on creating safety, increasing self-awareness, and developing coping skills that support long-term wellbeing.

Therapy with Monique is collaborative and flexible: clients take an active role in setting goals and choosing strategies, and sessions may be more reflective and exploratory or more skills-focused depending on individual needs. Her stated aim is to help each person develop a rational philosophy of life that reduces distress and self-defeating patterns, supporting greater fulfillment and self-respect along the way.