About Meghan
Meghan Howie-Timmel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois with 20 years of experience in healthcare settings. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and parenting concerns. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at helping people find steadier footing during hard transitions.
Meghan often draws on a strengths-based, client-centered way of working. She uses mindfulness and gentle movement to help people reconnect with their bodies and notice how feelings show up.
How Meghan works
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking and habits. Sessions start by listening to what matters most to the person in front of her. Together they identify realistic goals and small steps that fit daily life.
Meghan encourages self-compassion while also teaching concrete tools for coping with anxiety, low mood, and caregiving strain. She has particular experience supporting people facing chronic illness, cancer, fertility and reproductive concerns, pregnancy and postpartum changes, and caregiver stress. She also helps with body image, midlife concerns, career challenges, and navigating family of origin issues.
Meghan combines talk-based work with movement and mindfulness practices when helpful. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She aims to help people find meaning, restore energy, and build routines that support emotional balance.
Meghan lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Meghan works with
The areas below are the ones Meghan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches That Support Healing Online
Meghan uses client-centered work to focus sessions on the person and their goals. This approach means listening deeply, reflecting what matters, and shaping sessions around individual strengths and needs. It helps when someone wants a practical, empathetic space to talk through tough feelings.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. CBT offers exercises and small experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Emotionally-focused ideas guide attention to how emotions and connection show up, which can help with relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Choosing an approach is a joint process. Meghan will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adjust techniques as needed. She aims to match tools and practices to what fits a person's life and learning style, so the work feels useful and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and guided mindfulness or movement work, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and texting can support quick reflections, brief skill practice, and ongoing connection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy days.
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