Women's mental health counseling in Oak Brook
Women's Mental Health Counseling in Oak Brook
Dr. Carla Monday, Ed.D., LPC
Women's mental health is not one diagnosis or one set of life experiences. Carla Monday offers counseling that can address the concerns in front of the client while paying attention to relationships, identity, culture, stress, and the environments that shape daily life.
Counseling grounded in your actual context
A client may be carrying family responsibility, navigating a relationship change, responding to trauma, grieving, or trying to understand a change in mood. Another may want space to examine expectations, boundaries, or a transition. Carla's women's mental health focus allows these concerns to be considered together without assuming that every woman shares the same priorities.
Clients should be able to define the language that fits them. The service title reflects Carla's women's mental health focus without making assumptions about a client's gender identity or priorities.
Concerns Carla works with
Stress, trauma, and mood concerns
Carla works with trauma, mood disorders, and stress. Counseling may begin with present-day impact, coping, emotional patterns, and the client's priorities. A consultation can clarify scope without assigning a diagnosis or promising a result online.
Relationships, family conflict, and grief
Carla also works with family conflict, grief and loss, and relational distress. Sessions can explore communication, boundaries, roles, or loss while staying within counseling rather than legal, custody, or crisis services.
Life transitions
A transition may involve family, work, relationships, identity, or another change the client considers important. Carla can help define counseling goals around the context that is actually present.
A trauma-informed and culturally responsive perspective
Carla's focus areas are trauma-informed interventions, women's mental health, and cultural responsiveness. A trauma-informed perspective emphasizes safety, choice, pacing, and collaboration. Cultural responsiveness asks the clinician to consider identity and context without reducing the client to a category. Carla also uses CBT where it fits.
Adolescents and adults
Carla works with adolescents ages 13 to 17 and adults age 18 and older. For a minor, intake must explain consent, privacy limits, caregiver involvement, and current availability. Adult counseling should be planned directly with the client unless the client authorizes someone else to participate.
Scope and fit
Carla's stated focus covers the counseling concerns described here. If you are seeking a narrowly specialized perinatal, reproductive, eating-disorder, or medical service, ask intake directly about fit rather than assuming it is available. Her school psychologist credential is professional background and does not turn this OBCW counseling service into testing, IEP evaluation, or school consultation.
Meet Dr. Carla Monday
Carla Monday, Ed.D., LPC, is a school psychologist and Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 10 years of school-psychology experience. At Oak Brook Counseling & Wellness, she works with adolescents and adults, including LGBTQIA+ clients. Her approaches include trauma-informed interventions and CBT.
Before you reach out
Insurance
We work with several insurance and employee assistance (EAP) plans. Participation can vary by clinician, and benefits and eligibility should be verified.
Insurance and feesFees
- Initial intake or evaluation$250
- Individual psychotherapy$200
Sliding-scale availability can be discussed through intake. If cost is a concern, please tell our intake team and we will talk through your options honestly.
What happens next
- 01Reach out to our intake team
- 02Get thoughtfully matched
- 03Plan your first appointment
Finding the right therapist
We take matching seriously. The right fit between client and therapist matters, so our intake process is designed to understand your needs before suggesting someone.
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Frequently asked questions
What women's mental health concerns does Carla work with?
Does Carla specialize in postpartum or perinatal mental health?
What ages does Carla see?
Does Carla provide school testing through this practice?
Talk with our intake team about women's mental health counseling
Share what you would like to focus on and ask about Dr. Carla Monday's current availability and fit.
Request a consultation