Meghan Howie-Timmel, LCSW
Licensed social worker blending talk and body-centered care
About Meghan
Meghan Howie-Timmel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in healthcare settings. She encourages people to see counseling as an important step toward feeling better and regaining balance. Meghan speaks plainly about problems and focuses on practical ways to move through them.
She has experience with grief, chronic illness, anxiety, depression, high-risk pregnancy and reproductive concerns. She also helps with parenting stress, self-worth struggles, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Meghan draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Her style is strengths-based and human-centered. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and build on what already works for the person.
Mindfulness practices and gentle movement are brought in to help people reconnect with their bodies and calm anxious feelings. Meghan also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift unhelpful habits and patterns. Somatic-informed techniques are used to help people track sensations in the body and release tension that holds onto stress or grief.
Sessions aim to help people feel more present and able to care for themselves. Clients can expect a collaborative process that explores emotions, uncovers values, and builds practical skills. The work emphasizes finding purpose, restoring joy, and creating steadier routines for daily life.
Approaches that use both talk and the body
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on being listened to and understood so people can notice what matters to them and make changes. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and choices.Somatic Therapy brings attention to bodily sensations and movement as part of healing. It can help people who carry stress, grief, or chronic tension in their bodies to notice physical signals and learn ways to release or regulate them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers concrete steps to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and habit patterns that interfere with daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try techniques together, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to tune the work to personal needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats let people meet from home, fit sessions into busy days, and use shorter or ongoing contact when that is helpful. Many people find the range of options makes it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, and medical demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English