About Meredith
Meredith Bauer is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She practices from Texas and focuses on practical ways to manage daily strain and improve wellbeing. Meredith keeps sessions focused on the here and now.
She uses clear, goal-oriented techniques and listens to what matters most to each person. Conversations concentrate on steps you can try between sessions to reduce overwhelm and build new habits.
How Meredith works
Her background includes extensive work in healthcare settings helping people and caregivers manage chronic and serious illness. That work shaped a straightforward style that values problem solving, pacing, and attention to real-life limits like time and energy. She blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused strategies.
That mix helps people understand unhelpful thinking patterns, try small behavior changes, and set short-term goals that make a difference fast. Meredith also brings experience with aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family challenges, cancer and hospice care, chronic pain and caregiver stress.
She addresses communication problems, control issues, and the moral and emotional strain that can come with long-term caregiving. Sessions are offered in English and available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Meredith approaches therapy as a collaboration where practical steps and compassion guide the work together.
Meredith lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Meredith works with
The areas below are the ones Meredith selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Meredith’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on what matters to the person seeking help, with the therapist offering empathy and support while you identify goals and priorities. This approach is useful for people who need a steady, respectful listener as they sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In short, sessions identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical behavior changes that can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and lift mood over time.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, concrete steps you can take now. It helps set short-term goals and track progress, which can be useful when someone wants faster relief from daily stressors.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Meredith will help determine which methods fit your needs, goals, and comfort level, and she will adjust the plan as you make progress. That collaborative decision-making helps keep sessions relevant and focused on outcomes you notice.
Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility in scheduling and communication style. Video lets you use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter exchanges between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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