About Megan
Megan Bettenberg is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Colorado who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and concerns related to LGBT identity. She also supports people struggling with self-esteem, motivation, and ADHD-related challenges. Her style is straightforward and person-centered, focused on practical steps and steady progress.
Megan starts by listening to what matters most to each person. She looks for strengths people already have and builds on them. Sessions are collaborative - clients set goals and she offers tools to reach them.
Background and approach
She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness to address thoughts, emotions, and behavior. That can mean learning new ways to notice thoughts, practicing emotion regulation skills, or trying short exercises between sessions. Megan also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to help people find motivation and make small workable changes.
Those approaches can be useful when someone feels stuck or unsure how to move forward. With five years of experience as an LPC, she brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence to the work. Sessions are delivered remotely in formats like video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building on existing strengths; it helps people feel heard and involved in setting their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and change patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help when strong emotions or impulsive reactions get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Megan collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is made. The process is flexible and paced to what feels manageable for the client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat is a quick option for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These formats help people stay consistent with their work while balancing other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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