About Meghan
Meghan Howie-Timmel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience in healthcare settings. She frames counseling as a practical, caring step people take to feel better. Meghan writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
She has worked with people facing chronic illness, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, and high-risk pregnancy or reproductive concerns. She also supports those coping with parenting stress, low self-worth, life transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her background includes experience with aging and geriatric issues, cancer, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, and fertility-related worries. Meghan draws on a strengths-based, humanistic outlook. She uses client-centered methods and mindfulness exercises to help people name and sit with difficult feelings.
She also brings in cognitive behavioral techniques to gently shift unhelpful habits and thoughts. Movement is part of her approach. Meghan is a certified Nia dance teacher and sometimes includes gentle healing movement to help people reconnect with their bodies and emotions.
Her sessions focus on small, practical steps that fit into daily life. Therapy with Meghan is collaborative. She helps people explore emotions, build self-nurture skills, and look for meaning and balance.
The goal is clearer coping, renewed purpose, and more ease in day-to-day life.
Approach and online therapy options
Meghan commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping people find their own direction, which can be useful for building self-worth and managing life changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and offers practical steps to change habits that get in the way of daily functioning and anxiety management.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Meghan collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they may try mindfulness exercises, gentle movement suggestions, or structured CBT techniques and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people access care with more flexibility and convenience.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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