About Megan
Megan Hines is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, career stress, ADHD, and life changes. Her approach focuses on practical skills and steady support during hard times.
Megan brings ten years of clinical experience in a range of settings. She has worked in inpatient hospital programs and outpatient community mental health, including group work and higher-intensity programs.
Background and approach
That background gives her familiarity with both short-term crisis work and longer-term recovery plans. In sessions she uses clear, hands-on tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people make changes. She emphasizes skill building - for example, learning ways to manage strong emotions, reduce unhelpful thinking, and handle cravings or compulsive behaviors.
Megan aims to create a calm, respectful space for talking through tough topics. She listens, offers feedback, and teaches concrete strategies that can be practiced between sessions. The work is collaborative and paced to fit each person's needs.
People who choose her often want help with patterns like codependency, control issues, panic attacks, or substance use. She also supports those coping with postpartum depression, mood disorders, obsessive thoughts, or the stress of major life transitions. Her practice includes coaching elements for people focused on goals such as career decisions or money concerns.
How Megan’s approaches work online
CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses structured exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and unwanted habits. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal behavior through concrete skills practice and step-by-step coaching.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods together to see what fits best. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize CBT skills, DBT strategies, mindfulness, or moments of motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in more frequently or do shorter coaching-style exchanges between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English