About Meghan
Meghan McQuade is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people understand strong emotions and recurring behaviors. Meghan aims to set clear, achievable wellness goals while offering steady, nonjudgmental support.
She believes people are doing the best they can and that change is possible with practical steps. Meghan looks at both internal drivers and the outside stressors that shape reactions.
How Meghan works
She helps clients notice patterns linked to biology, life events, and learned responses so they can make different choices. Her style is collaborative. Meghan works with people who want to actively participate in therapy.
She highlights each person’s strengths and uses those strengths as tools for change. Education and skill-building are part of how she helps people move forward. When choosing techniques, Meghan matches strategies to individual needs and goals.
She emphasizes straightforward skills that build self-control, direction, and stability. The plan she creates with each person aims to reinforce progress over time. Meghan addresses a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, self-esteem, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and parenting.
She also works with people facing mood disorders, chronic pain or illness, attachment difficulties, and other complex challenges. Her approach blends practical tools with ongoing encouragement.
Meghan lists 8 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on doing what matters even when feelings are hard, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s perspective and uses empathic listening to build trust. This approach helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions to stress, relationship issues, or self-esteem concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and behavioral concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Meghan collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is and isn’t helping.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while fitting sessions into daily life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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