About Meg
Meg Skrypkun is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, bipolar disorder, depression, grief, anger, and low self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Meg creates a calm space for people to talk through difficult thoughts and feelings. She focuses on reducing overwhelm and building practical coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be a place for honest conversation, not judgment. Her work has covered long-term mood concerns and life-changing events. She has supported people facing substance use issues, trauma and abuse, and complicated grief.
Meg also addresses midlife questions, emptiness, and struggles with guilt and shame. Over 25 years she has learned to adapt tools to each person’s needs. That can mean shorter check-ins about coping strategies or deeper work on mood regulation and life purpose.
She helps people identify small changes that add up over time. Meg draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and practical problem solving. She helps clients set achievable goals and notice progress between sessions.
The aim is steady, usable change rather than quick fixes.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Meg uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce distress and build skills. One common approach focuses on mood regulation and practical coping strategies to help with depression, bipolar symptoms, and intense emotions. These methods teach step-by-step tools for managing daily ups and downs and for noticing small improvements over time.Another approach emphasizes skills for handling anxiety, stress, and cravings related to addictions. This work blends problem-solving, behavioral changes, and practice exercises so people can test new ways of coping between sessions. It can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms and for managing feelings of guilt, shame, or emptiness as well.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This helps make sure the work feels practical and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, coping reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep steady contact during change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English