About Meghan
Meghan Corkill is a licensed counselor practicing in Illinois with 21 years of experience. She works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, mood concerns, relationship struggles, and problems related to addiction and trauma. Meghan aims to make the first step feel doable and affirms the client for seeking help.
She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's goals. That means practical, plain-language sessions focused on what matters to the client.
Background and approach
Meghan draws on approaches that help people manage emotions, change unhelpful thoughts, and improve communication in close relationships. Her background includes work in school settings and coordinating with schools on student supports such as IEPs and 504 plans. That experience informs how she helps parents and adults navigate school-related stress and advocacy.
She has supported people through grief, chronic health concerns, career strain, and caregiving stress. Meghan also has a history of working with intimacy-related issues and sexual behavior concerns, and with people addressing ADHD, attachment questions, and identity concerns such as LGBT issues. She brings patience and practical strategies to these topics rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.
Sessions use client-centered conversation combined with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches when helpful. Meghan emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping clients build skills to manage symptoms and cope with life changes.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and shaping sessions around the client's goals and pace. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and support while deciding what changes to try.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems by practicing new ways of thinking and small behavioral experiments.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers practical tools for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful for strong mood swings, relationship patterns, and coping during crises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be a simple check-in and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options add flexibility for fitting therapy into busy schedules and varying daily needs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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