About Meghan
Meghan Murphy is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts. She has 13 years of practice helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her style is warm and straightforward, aiming to make the first steps easier for someone who may feel overwhelmed.
She works with people facing family conflict and relationship strain, and she supports those navigating parenting challenges and blended family issues.
Background and approach
Meghan also helps with mood concerns such as depression and low self-esteem, and with life transitions that can feel destabilizing. Her approach is individualized. She listens, then shapes conversations and a plan to fit each person's needs and goals.
Sessions focus on practical skills people can use between meetings as well as talking through difficult feelings. Meghan has experience with caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and fertility or postpartum concerns. She also addresses social anxiety, body image, and challenges connected to autism and Asperger syndrome in adults.
She aims to meet people where they are and build manageable steps forward. People who choose her often want a therapist who will speak plainly and treat them with respect and sensitivity. Meghan encourages small, steady progress and recognizes that starting therapy takes courage.
She guides clients at a pace that feels doable.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Meghan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching practical skills and processing difficult experiences. She emphasizes approaches that help people manage worry and day-to-day stress through skills practice and behavior changes. She also uses approaches that support working through trauma and grief by helping people make sense of painful events and reduce their impact on daily life.Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Meghan will work with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adjusts the plan so clients feel heard and involved in treatment decisions.
Online therapy here can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide flexibility for brief updates, coping reminders, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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