About Meghan
Meghan Simonett is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports individuals facing relationship strain, family conflict, grief, and major life changes. Her work addresses practical day-to-day struggles along with tougher emotional reactions.
Meghan uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping. She often blends cognitive tools with acceptance strategies and motivational conversation to match what a person needs in the moment.
Background and approach
Sessions are relaxed and direct, with room for humor as well as hard feelings. In therapy she helps clients break down overwhelming problems into small, manageable steps. That can mean learning ways to reduce anxious thinking, improving communication, or making a plan after a separation.
She also addresses concerns like body image, guilt and shame, control issues, and workplace stress. Her background includes nine years of clinical experience working with adults in New York. Meghan draws on practical methods that have research support while keeping the focus on what works for each person.
She aims to make sessions useful from week to week. People who start with Meghan can expect collaborative goal-setting and clear options for next steps. She helps people track progress, adjust strategies, and build skills to manage future challenges.
This approach is intended to help clients feel more steady and able to handle life as it changes.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
Meghan commonly uses cognitive strategies that help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with small experiments. These techniques are useful for reducing anxious thinking and changing patterns that keep stress high. She also draws on acceptance-based methods that teach clients to notice strong emotions without getting swept away, which can help with grief, trauma reactions, and persistent worry.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Meghan works with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and daily life. She reviews progress together and adjusts methods when something isn’t helping so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work when less bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, skill practice, or quick updates between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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