About Megan
Megan Rafferty is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in New Mexico with 30 years of counseling experience. She greets clients with a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. Her approach aims to help individuals feel safer emotionally so they can talk through what matters most to them.
Megan uses client-centered and attachment-based ideas to build on each person’s strengths. She encourages curiosity about thoughts and emotions that may be holding someone back.
Background and approach
Sessions also draw on cognitive behavioral and dialectical skills when practical to teach new ways of coping. Her background includes work as a counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor. Over the years she has supported people navigating grief, life changes, family and relationship challenges, caregiving stress, and issues related to identity and intimacy.
She also integrates existential themes like life purpose into her work when it fits the client’s goals. Megan describes a holistic focus on mind, body, spirit, emotions, and behavior. She helps people build balance and awareness so they can make changes that feel authentic.
Practical tools and reflective conversation are both part of the process. Prospective clients can expect a warm, steady presence and a collaborative style. Megan emphasizes working together to discover meaning, set goals, and practice skills that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Megan uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches to help people build emotional safety and stronger relationships with themselves and others. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds influence current reactions and helps people change patterns that cause distress. Client-centered methods focus on listening closely and supporting each person’s own goals and choices.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice different ways of responding. CBT tools are often used for anxiety and stress because they offer step-by-step skills for managing worry and behavior.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper, interactive sessions while phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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