Monika Broecker , LMFT

Monika Broecker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 14 years of clinical experience, based in California. She works with adults and families facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, mood conditions such as depression and bipolar, and a wide range of intimacy, parenting, eating, sleeping, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people navigating issues related to attachment, abandonment, blended families, codependency, and fertility concerns, and provides focused coaching around career and life transitions.

Her practice integrates solution-focused and somatic approaches to help clients make practical changes while attending to the body-mind connection. She trained in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and completed graduate study in Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is certified in Analytic Somatic Therapy and in Systemic Therapy, training that incorporates developments in trauma research and body-based methods.

Monika draws on present-moment awareness and pragmatic strategies to help people reduce anxiety about the future, process difficult past experiences, and build steps toward a more grounded life. Fluent in English and German, she combines short-term solution work with deeper somatic exploration to match the needs of each person. She looks forward to working with clients who are ready to explore change and resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Work and Personal Growth

Monika blends solution-focused work with somatic methods to support change in online sessions. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and goal-oriented conversations that help clients identify strengths and build immediate strategies for problems such as relationship tensions, stress, and everyday anxiety. Somatic Therapy attends to bodily experience and the ways the nervous system holds stress or trauma; it can be useful for people who notice physical symptoms of emotional distress and who want to work with sensations as part of healing. Psychodynamic Therapy offers a chance to explore patterns that arise from past relationships and family history, which can be helpful for long-standing issues like attachment, identity, and recurring relationship struggles.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Monika works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to determine which methods fit a person’s goals, preferences, and pace, adjusting the focus as progress unfolds.

Online therapy delivers these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing flexible scheduling, easier access from home, and continuity of care across life transitions. These formats make it possible to integrate practical solution-focused work, somatic awareness, and deeper exploration in ways that suit each client’s lifestyle and needs.