About Megan
Megan Prior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and life changes. She speaks plainly and works so clients can use practical tools between sessions. She aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and achievable for worried parents and busy adults.
Megan draws on ten years of experience in mental health to tailor sessions to each person. She helps with depression, grief, anger, sleeping problems, and relationship or parenting concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with trauma, attachment struggles, and the effects of caregiving and compassion fatigue. Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Megan blends approaches so the work fits the client instead of forcing a single method.
You can expect guidance, coping strategies, and time to talk through difficult moments. Her style is supportive and focused on practical change. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from acceptance-based approaches to help people live by their values.
Skills from dialectical behavior therapy are added when emotion regulation or intense stress is part of the picture. Megan practices in Illinois and works in English. She helps people with career stress, intimacy concerns, ADHD-related struggles, and issues tied to adoption, abandonment, or blended family situations.
Her aim is steady progress you can feel in day-to-day life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making steady life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking that keep problems going and practicing different behaviors to get better results. It often helps with sleeping, depression, and managing worry.Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about what feels most useful and combine methods when it makes sense. This collaborative process means plans are adjusted to goals, day-to-day needs, and what works in real life.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people meet face-to-face, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving duties, or school routines while still focusing on skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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