About Megan
Megan Woods is a licensed professional counselor who aims to make therapy feel straightforward. She works with people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, relationship challenges, or issues with substance use. Her tone is practical and down-to-earth, focused on small steps that add up to change.
She brings ten years of experience in mental health and a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. That background includes individual and group work in office settings and meeting clients in their homes for sessions.
Background and approach
Megan draws on a mix of approaches rather than a single technique. Sessions are collaborative and adaptable. Some meetings focus on building daily routines and concrete coping skills.
Other sessions may be more conversational or creative, depending on what helps the person engage and process emotions. Megan pays attention to the person behind the problems. She asks about everyday likes and routines to better understand what motivates each client.
That helps her tailor suggestions so they feel realistic and useful in daily life. Her approach includes practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods alongside attachment-based and narrative ideas. She often blends motivational interviewing when people want support making real changes.
The aim is steady progress toward clearer goals and more manageable days.
How these approaches work online
Megan commonly uses client-centered work, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive behavioral methods in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping the person lead the conversation so goals come from the client. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape current reactions and help people build safer ways of relating to others. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Megan will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work when a lower bandwidth option is needed or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English