Getting the High-Quality Mental Health Care

YOU DESERVE.

Let’s Meet Monina Reyes! (she/her)

Monina identifies as a queer, first-generation Asian-American immigrant and finds her lived experiences useful in her work as a therapist. Genuine, human connections are her favorite aspects of life and she seeks to cultivate these through mutual trust, respect, and vulnerability.

Outside of work, you can find Monina at a local coffee shop lost in a book, her writing, or music. She feels most inspired when surrounded by her loved ones, her cats, and the great outdoors.

Monina brings so much knowledge, care and experience to the team!

Areas of Specialization

  • Populations Served: young adults & adults

  • LGBTQIA+ lived experiences and liberation

  • intersectionality

  • immigrant mental health •

  • identity and value exploration

  • relational concerns

  • attachment

  • anxiety

  • depression

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Psychology(Behavioral Analysis), University of Florida

  • Master of Science (MS) in Mental Health Counseling, Florida State University

  • Education Specialist (Ed.S) in Mental Health Counseling, Florida State University

Previous Experience

  • Masters Level Intern, Florida State University’s Center for Couples and Family Therapy

  • Clinical Staff Support Assistant, Southeastern Behavioral Health

  • Registered Behavioral Technician, Fundamental Therapy Solutions, Behavior Analysis Support Services

 My supervisor in this role is Josephine Ampaw, LCSW, MFTC, MA

Monina believes that you are a whole person before you are anything else. Her therapeutic approach centers around a social justice framework in order to humanize the mental health experience - it is important for Monina to acknowledge and dismantle the inherent systems of power and privilege that exist in the therapeutic room. She views her primary role as a therapist as one who shows up, listens, and empowers.

Through the use of person-centered, systemic modalities (i.e. narrative, feminist), she hopes to collaborate with her clients in fostering improved relationships with their self and others.