Monica O’Connell, MA, LMFT ✷
Therapist
Coach
About Monica.
HQ: Eagan, Minnesota, USA
Client Range: Therapy- Minnesota Only
Coaching- Broader USA
Client Age: Adults (18+)
Accepting New Clients? Yes
Sessions Offered: Virtually
Monica is a Minnesota-based therapist and coach with an instinctual ability to reveal nuanced aspects and/or patterns of each individual that often have been missed, misunderstood, or dismissed in previous attempts at professional or self examination. She often works with individuals who are currently high-achieving, highly sensitive, self-aware and interpersonally skilled yet may have a history of trauma or addiction and are also experiencing distress in their relationship with themselves and/or their relationships with others.
She challenges traditional siloed models of mental health therapy, instead creatively weaving each strand of the client’s unique complexity into her conceptualization process. Honoring the intricacies and often less visible aspects of each individual’s story provides the client with a fresh opportunity to authentically understand, and strengthen their relationship with, their inner and outer self as well as the external relationships and structures in which they exist. In sessions, Monica’s approach is direct, her thinking divergent, and her ability to make unseen connections is eerie.
In addition to her individual therapy and coaching, she also provides support for couples and parents.
Superwell Specialties.
Gifted-Specific Support
I provide gifted-specific therapy and coaching for individuals and couples as well as parents of gifted and twice exceptional children.
Creative-Specific Support
In addition to bringing divergent strategies into all of my client sessions, I specifically help individuals to befriend their inner critic, increase self-understanding and trust, and become their own guidepost as a way to make space for creative flow + magic.
Neurodivergent-Specific Support (other than giftedness)
I provide therapy and coaching for individuals who identify as highly sensitive or neurodivergent, most commonly ADHD or on the autism spectrum. I also provide couples therapy for relationships in which one partner is on the autism spectrum.
Other Areas of Specialization:
Body image, especially in women, pregnancy, non-binary and trans people
Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP)
Perfectionism
Substance use
Trauma
Professional Stuff.
Education and/or Training institute
Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy and Addiction Counseling Certificate, Saint Mary's University, Minneapolis, MN
Professional Licenses and/or Certifications:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy- MN (LMFT)
Therapy + Coaching Modalities:
Individuals
Couples
Parenting
