About Meredith
Meredith McQuagge is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports adults dealing with relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Meredith draws on practical skills to help people feel steadier day to day.
She brings a direct, nonjudgmental style to sessions and centers care on each person’s goals. Meredith emphasizes evidence-based techniques and aims for clear, usable strategies rather than jargon.
Background and approach
She frames therapy as a partnership where small changes lead to more ease in daily life. Meredith’s background includes military service and life as a military spouse, which shaped her understanding of busy, stressful lives. That experience informs her compassion for people feeling isolated, worn out, or overwhelmed by intrusive thoughts.
She acknowledges how shame and exhaustion can make it hard to ask for help. In practice she uses focused interventions for anxiety, panic, phobias, PTSD, and compulsive behaviors alongside broader work for depression, substance concerns, and relationship problems. Meredith also offers neurodiversity-affirming support and works with people facing body image, identity, and communication challenges.
Sessions aim to strengthen coping skills while honoring each person’s authentic self. Her approach is pragmatic and strengths-based, combining short-term tools with deeper processing when it’s needed. Meredith helps people build confidence and create daily routines that reduce stress and increase emotional balance.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online therapy
Meredith uses several evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to remote work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavioral experiments; it helps with anxiety, panic, and low mood by teaching clear coping strategies. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches skills to notice thoughts and choose values-guided actions even when anxiety is present; it supports people who feel stuck by clarifying what matters most.She also uses Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for phobias and compulsive behaviors, which involves gradual, planned facing of feared situations with support to reduce avoidance. These approaches are applied in a collaborative way - Meredith will work with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they set priorities and adjust methods over time so the plan stays useful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and shared worksheets, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging make short check-ins or skill practice easier between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while maintaining consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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