About Monica
Monica Robbins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) offering telehealth therapy to adults in New Mexico and Colorado. She works with people navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relational challenges, life transitions, grief, and the deeper spiritual questions that healing can open. Before becoming licensed, Monica spent seven years as a wilderness therapy field guide and eighteen years as a massage therapist. Those years taught her how to be present, how to hold space with deep attuned listening, and that humans heal most naturally when they feel genuinely connected — to themselves, to others, and to something larger than their own story. They also gave her a deep somatic foundation — an understanding of how the body holds experience and how it heals — that continues to inform her clinical work.
Monica's approach to therapy is grounded in the understanding that at the root of healing is releasing the stories that keep us stuck in patterns and responses. Most of us come to therapy with an underlying sense that there is something inherently wrong with us — that we are broken, not enough, or need to be fixed. Through mindfulness and somatic work, Monica helps people unpack those stories and reconnect to their innate wholeness.
She combines trauma-informed care with somatic, contemplative, and mindfulness-based practices — including EMDR, Mindfulness-Based Somatic-Emotional Processing (MBSEP), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, RAIN, and DBT — to support the unwinding of the stories held as patterns in the mind and body.
Monica's work is for people who are ready to go beyond managing their symptoms and heal the wounds that keep them from being fully present in their lives.
My Why
I came into this work through my own journey of healing from C-PTSD. What I learned on my journey is that healing happens when your mind and body recognize that the story they have been telling isn't true — and was never true.
Once that recognition lands, your body begins to release the inner scaffolding that held that story in place. This scaffolding shows up as emotional dysregulation, reactivity, and difficulty managing stress and triggers — but also as relational challenges, isolation, avoidance, perfectionism, chronic shame, difficulty trusting others, and a persistent sense of not belonging or being fundamentally different from everyone around you.
As it releases, there is more room. More choice. More of yourself available to be present. Relationships begin to feel less charged and more nourishing. A quiet steadiness emerges — along with greater clarity about who you are and what actually matters to you. More peace. More joy. More of the life that was always here but obscured by wounds and false narratives.
Insight alone is not enough to change these deeper patterns — and insight is where most talk therapy lives. Insight matters. But until your body recognizes that the narrative it has been wiring around isn't true — I am broken. I am not enough. There is something wrong with me — no amount of coping skills or understanding will change your internal experience.
My interest is in showing you how to change that internal experience — by integrating traumatic experiences, releasing false conclusions, and remembering who you were before the wounds.
When you remember your wholeness, life stops being something to survive and becomes something to celebrate and enjoy.