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Therapist in Ventura, California Monica New, Therapist

Gender Identity: Female (Xe/Xim)

Ages Served: 15-75+

Appointments: Telehealth only. In-office visits not available

Manages Medications: No, provides therapy only

Accepts Insurance: Yes - View accepted plans

Monica New, Therapist

Monica New, MA, LMFT

Specializes In:

Career & relationships (mid-life)
Empty nesters
Family conflict
Parenthood
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Monica New is dedicated to helping clients build the path to the life they envision. Many of her clients have experienced limited success with previous therapists but find significant progress working alongside her. Monica is passionate about guiding individuals through life’s challenges, helping them gain clarity, make impactful changes, and face the future with confidence. She encourages clients to release doubts and worries about the past as they look ahead.

Monica specializes in supporting clients facing a range of challenges, including online and in-person dating, finding a partner who complements their strengths, navigating personal, family, and professional relationship conflicts, and working through issues such as trauma, hopelessness, sadness, anxiety, and various DSM-5 diagnoses. She is EMDR-certified with a focus on attachment-based work, utilizing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address past traumas and unresolved emotional experiences effectively. With a commitment to empowering clients to feel happy, confident, and proud of who they are, Monica invites those ready to make lasting changes to work together on building a fulfilling life.

Types of Care & Ages Served

Areas of Focus

Family Therapy

Improve communication and resolve conflicts within family dynamics with a clinician's guidance.

  • Family conflict
  • Ability status
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Anger issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Brain/head injuries (TBI)
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Caregiving
  • Chronic pain-related issues
  • Dementia & memory issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • End-of-life challenges
  • Ethnic identity
  • Fertility
  • First responder stress
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Gender identity
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hallucinations
  • Immigration/cultural status
  • Intellectual challenges: generally independent
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other neurological conditions
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Premarital counseling
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Racial identity
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-injury or cutting
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sexual trauma
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social injustice
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress from ongoing health issues
  • Stress management
  • Stroke-related conditions
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs

Individual Therapy

Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.

  • Ability status
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Anger issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Brain/head injuries (TBI)
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Career & work issues
  • Caregiving
  • Chronic pain-related issues
  • Dementia & memory issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • End-of-life challenges
  • Ethnic identity
  • Family conflict
  • Fertility
  • First responder stress
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Gender identity
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hallucinations
  • Immigration/cultural status
  • Intellectual challenges: generally independent
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other neurological conditions
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Premarital counseling
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Racial identity
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-injury or cutting
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sexual trauma
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social injustice
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress from ongoing health issues
  • Stress management
  • Stroke-related conditions
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs

Couples Therapy

Helps partners address relationship conflict and improve communication with a clinician's guidance.

  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Empty nesters
  • Parenthood
  • Ability status
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Anger issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Brain/head injuries (TBI)
  • Career & work issues
  • Caregiving
  • Chronic pain-related issues
  • Dementia & memory issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Emotional abuse
  • End-of-life challenges
  • Ethnic identity
  • Family conflict
  • Fertility
  • First responder stress
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Gender identity
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hallucinations
  • Immigration/cultural status
  • Intellectual challenges: generally independent
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other neurological conditions
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Premarital counseling
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Racial identity
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-injury or cutting
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sexual trauma
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social injustice
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress from ongoing health issues
  • Stress management
  • Stroke-related conditions
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs

Languages

  • English

Education

  • The University of Miami

  • Antioch University

FAQs

Please call us at 820-288-0273 to schedule an appointment with Monica New.

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For my first appointment, the representative who helped me book a therapist was very personable and found me someone who was qualified, had lots of experience, who took my insurance and who was available. The therapist has been excellent.
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