Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
How Megan works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Megan
Megan Prior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who works with people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and changes in life. She aims to offer calm, practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is direct and caring, with an emphasis on helping people find tools that fit their life.
Megan has ten years of experience in the mental health field and has supported people dealing with trauma, attachment concerns, and relationship and parenting stress.
Background and approach
She also helps with sleep problems, self-esteem, career questions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. She draws on a mix of well-known approaches to match each person's needs. In sessions she focuses on building skills people can use between appointments.
That can include learning ways to manage strong emotions, practicing different thinking patterns, and trying new habits that ease daily stress. She also helps people process grief and work through difficult life transitions. Her work includes attention to deeper patterns like attachment issues, abandonment, and codependency when those come up.
She also has experience with more complex presentations such as dissociation and disruptive mood concerns. Megan adapts interventions to fit each person rather than using one fixed method. People who choose Megan can expect a collaborative process.
She listens first, then suggests practical strategies and tracks progress together. She encourages steady steps forward and offers coaching-style guidance alongside therapeutic work.
What Megan works with
Everything Megan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Megan's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Megan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How different approaches guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, anger, and getting unstuck during life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills for handling strong feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Megan treats the choice of methods as collaborative and flexible. She will listen to your goals and try strategies that fit your needs, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can help people stay connected between appointments or use brief coaching-style support during the week. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
Questions people ask about Megan
What concerns does she commonly address?
Megan helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, relationship struggles, parenting stress, and trauma exposure. She also works with issues like sleep trouble, self-esteem, career changes, and ADHD-related challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is supportive and practical. She listens first, then offers skills and strategies people can practice between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience in the mental health field working with a range of concerns from mood and anxiety to trauma and attachment issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds an LCPC, listed as an Illinois LCPC, and practices in Illinois.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she sees clients within the scope of her Illinois licensure.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and getting started work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.