About Megan
Megan Du Plessis offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by relationships, loss, stress or anxiety. She writes and listens in a straightforward way, helping clients find clearer thinking and small steps that fit their lives. Sessions are aimed at people who want a respectful, steady space to talk and work through what matters to them.
Megan draws on a person-centred foundation that keeps the client’s experience at the centre of each session.
How Megan works
Early meetings focus on listening and mapping out what feels most urgent. From there she uses techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to build simple strategies for coping and change. Her background includes work in addiction services and bereavement support, which has shaped a careful, trauma-aware style.
She tends to use short, practical tools as well as deeper conversation when that helps the client reach a goal. Megan also works with issues around identity, intimacy and sexual expression with sensitivity and curiosity. She has five years of experience and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans, and she sees clients across the United Kingdom as well as international clients. Typical sessions may focus on improving sleep, managing mood or anxiety, coping with grief, or building confidence after difficult experiences. Megan encourages a steady pace and collaborative planning so clients keep control over what they explore and how they move forward.
Megan lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Megan works with
The areas below are the ones Megan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Afrikaans |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Megan uses different therapy styles online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on what matters most to them. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood when clients want practical ways to act despite difficult feelings.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the pace the client sets, which suits people who need a steady, respectful space to talk.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and looks for small experiments that change patterns. It often helps with sleep problems, anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Megan will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort. That means checking in regularly and adapting the plan if something does not feel helpful.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible so it can fit around work, family and travel.
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