About Megan
Megan Hines is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and trauma. She also supports people coping with low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, anger, and major life changes. Her approach centers on practical tools that people can use between sessions to feel steadier day to day.
Megan draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to make therapy concrete and goal-focused.
Background and approach
She offers short-term skill building and longer work on patterns that keep people stuck. Sessions tend to include clear strategies, real examples, and steps to practice at home. With about 10 years of experience, Megan has worked in settings that include hospital and community mental health programs.
That background informs her work with mood disorders, substance concerns, panic and obsessive patterns, and complex reactions to trauma. She aims to match interventions to each person’s situation and strengths. Megan pays attention to how life stress, past wounds like abandonment or codependency, and current demands such as career and money strain affect mood and behavior.
She helps people break cycles of avoidance, manage panic and overwhelm, and rebuild connection to values and purpose. Practical tools are emphasized alongside emotional processing. Clients can expect straightforward skills for managing anxiety and cravings, coaching on communication and boundaries, and collaborative planning for next steps.
Megan welcomes questions about how therapy could fit into someone’s life and goals.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and stress work
CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In sessions clients learn to test beliefs, build new habits, and practice small experiments to reduce worry and panic over time. DBT focuses on emotion regulation and coping skills. It teaches techniques for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal boundaries and communication.Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and personal preferences to decide which methods to try first. It’s common to blend CBT and DBT tools and adjust the plan as progress is made, so clients stay involved in decisions about their care.
Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, family, or health needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to share quick updates, practice skills between sessions, or get support when scheduling a full session is difficult. These options help therapy fit into varied routines and make ongoing practice more reachable.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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