About Megan
Megan Prior helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or worn out find practical ways forward. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and parenting strains, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and career or life transitions. Megan is an IL LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - with ten years of experience in mental health.
She focuses on building skills you can use between sessions. That might mean learning ways to manage intense emotions, practicing new communication habits, or developing routines that improve sleep and energy.
How Megan works
Megan also helps people process trauma and address attachment or intimacy concerns in clear, manageable steps. Megan blends several evidence-informed approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and action, and attachment-based work to repair connection patterns.
The result is an individualized plan you can try and adjust over time. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Megan aims to make therapy feel like a partnership where practical tools and honest feedback are part of the work.
She can also offer coaching-style support for people wanting to make focused life or career changes. People come to her wanting relief from long-standing patterns, help after painful events, or support navigating a big life change. She works from Illinois and provides services in English to those who connect through the site's available session formats.
Megan lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How Megan’s approaches work online
Megan commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that reflect their values to move forward. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connection patterns affect current relationships and helps repair trust and closeness through understanding and practice.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Megan will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan based on what works in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls let you work face-to-face while staying in your own routine. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, and when a quick message helps between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and keep therapy consistent.
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