About Megan
Megan Prior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and relationship or parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and works to make therapy feel manageable for someone worried and unsure about the next step. Megan uses a flexible approach rather than one fixed method.
She listens first to understand what matters most, then adapts techniques to a person’s goals. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer routines, and ways to handle strong emotions day to day.
Background and approach
She has ten years of experience in the mental health field and has supported people who have experienced trauma and abuse. That background guides how she approaches safety, pacing, and rebuilding a sense of control after hard events. Megan draws from methods including acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-focused ideas, cognitive behavioral work, and dialectical skills.
In therapy she blends these tools to match a person’s needs rather than pushing a single model. People often come to her wanting help with sleep, coping with life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, or low self-esteem. Conversations move toward clear steps to try between sessions, so progress can be measured and adjusted over time.
Her practice is located in Illinois and she offers sessions using multiple online formats. The initial intake focuses on what feels most pressing and what practical changes a client hopes to see.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Megan commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as part of her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that align with their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and building new habits to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and tackle sleep or concentration problems.She also draws on attachment-informed ideas that look at how early relationships shape expectations and communication. That approach can help people improve intimacy, set clearer boundaries, and repair patterns that cause repeated conflict. Megan treats finding the right approach as a shared process; she will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then adapt methods over time based on what helps most.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions when face-to-face interaction helps the work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and try different ways of connecting to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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