About Megan
Megan Prior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical ways to cope. Megan has ten years of experience in the mental health field and aims to make therapy feel doable and steady.
Megan helps people work through relationship strain, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and sleep problems. She also supports those dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, career concerns, and difficulties tied to attention differences.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to attachment-related issues and other complex patterns that affect daily life. In sessions she uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. That can include somatic ideas that connect body sensations to emotions, acceptance and commitment work to clarify values, and cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thinking.
Megan keeps the language simple and focuses on actions people can try between meetings. Her style is warm and engaged. She aims to offer practical strategies, steadiness, and chances to try new ways of solving problems.
People can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and reviewed as progress happens. Megan practices in Illinois and brings a decade of front-line clinical experience to her work. She encourages people to take the first step when they feel ready and supports them in building stronger coping skills and clearer direction.
How Megan’s Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed therapy pays attention to body sensations and how they connect to emotions. Online sessions can include guided attention to breathing, posture, and physical cues to help people notice and shift emotional patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values; it helps with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by clarifying what matters and reducing unhelpful struggle. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and connection; online conversations can help people spot those patterns and try new ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is usually a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which ideas fit best based on their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from home, keep continuity during life changes, and use brief check-ins between meetings. The goal is to make consistent, practical therapy easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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