About Megan
Megan Foley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She writes plainly and works to make each session focused and practical for busy lives. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions and draws on long experience supporting people with chronic health issues.
That background informs how she helps clients handle ongoing medical stress, caregiving strain, and end-of-life concerns.
How Megan works
Conversations are aimed at clear goals and useful coping skills rather than vague talk. Megan emphasizes stronger communication and clearer decision making. She helps people identify what matters to them, set small achievable steps, and practice new ways of responding to stress.
Sessions often include concrete strategies for panic, social anxiety, and seasonal mood shifts. Workplace strain, control issues, relationship conflict, and the emotional effects of divorce or separation are also common topics. She supports people who are caring for aging relatives or facing hospice and end-of-life decisions.
Chronic pain, illness, and disability are treated with a focus on daily living and emotional coping. Megan aims for a collaborative style. She listens for practical needs, offers straightforward tools, and adjusts plans as goals change.
Her work is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a compassionate, respectful stance.
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.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Megan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxious thoughts and panic attacks, teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposures to reduce fear responses. Another approach centers on strengthening communication and problem solving to reduce workplace stress, family conflict, and feelings of low self-worth.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. That collaborative process lets you adapt methods over time as needs shift and as you track what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging can support shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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