{"id":2802,"date":"2013-10-17T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cityfertility.com.au\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=2802"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:35:47","slug":"monique-cohenka","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/staff\/monique-cohenka\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Monique Cohenka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #00509f;\">Monique\u2019s counselling style is respectful, friendly and compassionate. Her sessions provide a safe welcoming and thoughtful space to help couples or individuals work through the challenges they may face throughout their fertility journey.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monique works primarily in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fertility counselling<\/li>\n<li>Pre-treatment counselling<\/li>\n<li>Pre donation counselling<\/li>\n<li>Surrogacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monique has worked as a counsellor for over 20 years in a range of health settings including the mental health sector, general hospitals and in private practice. She has a Doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy as well as a Bachelor in Social Work and a Master\u2019s in Women\u2019s Health. She has also trained and completed an internship at <em>Relationships Australia<\/em> as a couple therapist.<\/p>\n<p>As a fertility counsellor her aim is to provide couples and individuals with the support they need to manage what could be consider an incredibly challenging time and to help them put in place strategies to maintain their health and wellbeing before, during and after fertility treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In her counselling Monique endeavours to support the well-being of individuals and couples of all ethnicities, genders and sexualities including the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registrations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Member Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Mental Health accredited<\/li>\n<li>Member Australia New Zealand Infertility Counsellors Association (ANZICA)<\/li>\n<li>Medicare provider for Mental Health Care Plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Monique, or to book a session please visit her website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcohenka.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">www.mcohenka.com.au<\/a> or go to her booking page <a href=\"https:\/\/mcohenka.simplybook.me\/v2\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mcohenka.simplybook.me<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ground floor, 493 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004 (Monday and Tuesday).<\/li>\n<li>Malvern Rooms,\u00a0 1227 Malvern Road Malvern VIC 3144.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58673,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"staff-language":[],"staff-type":[19],"class_list":["post-2802","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff-type-counselor"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"staff-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-language?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"staff-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityfertility.coconutlab.io\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-type?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}