About Megan
Megan Lancaster uses a client-centered approach to guide people through hard moments. She is ME LCPC and has built a decade of clinical experience in Maine. She aims to meet people where they are and focus on practical steps they can take now.
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also works with issues like low self-esteem, motivation, and problems in relationships. Addictions, grief, sleep troubles, and parenting pressures are part of her practice as well.
Background and approach
Megan draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people change unhelpful thought patterns and learn concrete coping skills. She pairs those skills with motivational interviewing when people feel stuck or uncertain about making changes. Megan believes people know their own stories and already have strengths to build on.
Sessions focus on naming what matters, setting small goals, and practicing real strategies between meetings. She aims to offer straightforward feedback and steady support as clients try new ways of coping. This work often covers complex, overlapping concerns such as mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic, post-traumatic stress, workplace stress, and young adult transitions.
Megan helps people untangle these problems one step at a time and figure out what to try next.
Approach and online options for skill-based work
Megan often combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's priorities, helping them name what matters and set realistic goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving how someone relates to others.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Megan will work with each person to figure out which methods match their goals and preferences. She encourages small experiments in session and between visits so people can see what helps most and adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support brief check-ins, and messaging helps with ongoing reflection or quick updates. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, maintain continuity during life transitions, and practice skills in real time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English