About Megan
Megan Rafferty brings a calm, client-centered style to her work. She is an LPCC and has practiced counseling for 30 years in New Mexico. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people manage stress, grief, anxiety, and life changes.
Megan focuses on building emotional safety so people can talk through what hurts. She uses attachment-informed ideas and cognitive-behavioral tools to notice patterns that cause pain. Sessions explore thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in a way that connects mind and everyday life.
How Megan works
She also draws on dialectical skills and existential questions to help people find balance and meaning. That combination supports coping with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, career shifts, and caregiving strain. There is attention to trauma, abuse, and post-traumatic stress when those issues are present.
Over three decades Megan has worked as a counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor. Her background includes helping people with family of origin issues, blended families, divorce and separation, and end-of-life counseling. She has experience supporting LGBT concerns and polyamory or non-monogamous relationship questions.
Megan frames the work as collaborative coaching and counseling. She helps people identify strengths, face difficult emotions, and take small steps toward change. The focus is practical: better communication, clearer boundaries, more reliable coping skills, and a deeper sense of purpose.
Megan lists 11 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
Therapy approaches and how they translate online
The work often begins with attachment-based ideas that look at how relationships shape feelings and reactions. This helps when relationship patterns, intimacy issues, or abandonment wounds affect daily life and connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions to reduce anxiety and depression. It includes practical exercises and small behavior changes people can try between sessions. Dialetical behavior skills bring tools for managing strong emotions and improving moments of crisis or high stress. These skills teach regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication in tense situations. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what feels useful. Online therapy provides flexible ways to engage. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, in-the-moment coaching, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping treatment focused and practical.Start online instead of waiting
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