Mona Klausing, M.S., LMFT

Email

Primary Email: [email protected]

Phone/Fax

Primary Phone: 619-322-3193

Building/Location

North Education - 188
Mail Code: 1179

Bio

Mona has been teaching undergrads and grad students in the Counseling & School  Psychology dept. at SDSU since 2014. She has taught in the MFT, Online MA, School  Counseling and School Psychology graduate programs and the undergraduate Minor in  Counseling & Social Change. Her teaching interests include multi-cultural and group  counseling skills, social justice issues in the field of mental health, and cultivating  resilience in the face of adversity. From 2014-2017, Mona also served as the Clinic  Administrator for SDSU’s off campus mental health clinic, The Center for Community  Counseling and Engagement. She has been an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor since 2017  and is passionate about training new clinicians, particularly those from underserved  populations. 

Previously, Mona completed her undergraduate studies at UCSD, majoring in Linguistics  with an emphasis on Romance Languages (Spanish and French) and Minoring in Japanese  Studies. After graduating, she worked in high tech international marketing for 20 years  before returning to graduate school at SDSU to become a licensed marriage and family  therapist. In addition to her M.S. in Counseling, she completed two post-masters  certificate programs in Latin American Family Therapy at Alliant University Mexico City  campus and Narrative Therapy & Community Work from Narrative Initiatives San Diego.  

In addition to teaching at SDSU, Mona owns a private practice where she supervises 5  associate MFTs and serves as a Co-Director and Board Member of NISD Counseling, a  non-profit counseling & training center in Hillcrest with a staff of more than a dozen pre licensed and licensed MFTs. Learn more at www.monaklausing.com.