Monica Lynch, MSW RSW

Registered Social Worker

Monica works with children, youth, young adults, and families navigating a range of transitions, challenges and life experiences.

Meet Monica

Empowerment and resilience are the core traits Monica seeks to bolster with her clients. Through a strengths-based approach, Monica helps clients to identify skills and traits within themselves for overcoming life challenges and setting goals for self-growth. Those who work with her feel a sense of trust, respect and dignity; their voices heard, strengths identified, and experiences validated. 

With a decade and a half experience in the school system as a classroom teacher, student support staff and school social worker, Monica is well versed in working with children, youth, young adults and their families. She is passionate about working to problem-solve collaboratively with young clients and their support systems, to foster their strengths and well-being. 

Integrating professional knowledge and personal experience, Monica is versatile in working with individuals, families and groups. Through a client-centred approach, she combines her diverse knowledge base with evidence-based modalities including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), narrative therapy and mindfulness practices, to create a best-fit treatment approach. 

Through a client-centred approach, she combines her diverse knowledge base with evidence-based modalities including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), narrative therapy and mindfulness practices, to create a best-fit treatment approach.

A lifelong learner, Monica continually seeks out opportunities for training and professional development, which has a direct impact on the flexible and dynamic nature of her practice. 

• Education

  • Master of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University 

  • Bachelor of Education, Brock University

• Services Offered

  • Child Therapy 

  • Youth Therapy

  • Young Adult Therapy 

  • Family Therapy

• Treatment Specialties

  • Depression

  • Life transitions

  • Anxiety 

  • Sleep issues

  • Social Emotional Challenges 

  • Interpersonal Challenges 

  • Executive Functioning 

  • School/work-life balance

  • Grief and Bereavement 

  • Women’s Health and Wellness

• Therapeutic Modalities

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Narrative Therapy 

  • Mindfulness Practices 

  • Collaborative Problem-Solving

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