About Megan
Megan Gonzales is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, or the fallout of trauma and abuse. Megan speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first step toward change feel more manageable.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. Sessions are guided by practical conversation and plan-making, with an emphasis on clear goals and small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Megan pays attention to how daily habits, relationships, and past hurts affect current emotions and behavior. Megan also supports people dealing with relationship challenges, attachment concerns, issues related to adoption and foster care, caregiver strain, body image, and feelings of emptiness. She has worked with clients who face first responder stress, communication struggles, and problems with control or commitment.
Her approach is adaptable to a wide range of difficulties. In sessions she focuses on respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She listens carefully, helps clarify what matters most, and collaborates on strategies that fit each person’s life.
The therapist and client work together to try new skills and track progress over time. For people who prefer online options, Megan offers multiple session formats so you can choose what works best. She encourages small steps and realistic goals so progress can be noticed and built on.
Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Care
Many of the therapeutic approaches Megan uses are evidence-based techniques that help people understand and change patterns of thinking and behavior. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce anxiety and low mood; it helps people build more balanced thinking and calmer reactions. Another approach centers on managing strong emotions and learning new coping skills for anger, stress, and trauma-related responses; it includes practical tools to lower intensity and increase tolerance.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Megan works with each person to decide which techniques fit best based on their goals and life circumstances. She adjusts the plan as progress is made and encourages regular check-ins to make sure the work feels useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people connect face-to-face when that helps build rapport. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging offer brief, timely check-ins and support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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