About Megan
Megan Prior greets clients with a straightforward message: asking for help takes courage. She emphasizes practical support, offering strategies and resources for stress, anxiety, parenting strain, grief, and relationship concerns. Megan uses a warm, collaborative style so people feel heard and understood as they start therapy.
With ten years in the field and an IL LCPC credential, Megan has experience with trauma, attachment difficulties, and mood concerns like depression and anger.
Background and approach
She also helps people managing compassion fatigue, sleep problems, career uncertainty, and life changes such as adoption and foster care challenges. Her work blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and commit to meaningful action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas guide work on connection and trust issues. Megan aims for sessions that are practical and compassionate.
She offers concrete coping skills, moments to process strong feelings, and steps to rebuild routines after disruption. Her tone is steady and engaged rather than overly technical. People who choose Megan can expect a collaborative plan shaped around their goals.
She supports clients through setbacks and celebrates small changes. Her focus is on workable tools that fit day-to-day life and help people move forward.
How Megan’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values despite difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change how people feel and act. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and supports rebuilding trust and connection where those patterns cause pain.Choosing an approach is a joint effort. Megan will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time so the work fits the person’s life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief coaching or timely support into a busy schedule. These formats let people access therapy from different locations and routines while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English