Megan Prior
Compassionate counselor for life transitions
LCPC Illinois
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Parenting
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Megan
Megan Prior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and parenting strains. She writes plainly and meets people where they are, offering practical tools and steady support during hard moments.
Background and approach
Megan draws on a mix of methods to match each person’s needs. She uses the Gottman Method alongside approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques.
Sessions focus on clear skills - managing strong emotions, improving communication, and building routines that aid sleep and daily functioning. She has spent ten years in the mental health field working with people impacted by trauma, attachment struggles, and relationship challenges.
That experience informs how she responds to anger, compassion fatigue, and the long recovery process after difficult events. Megan also addresses issues related to adoption and foster care, abandonment, and caregiver stress.
Megan prefers a collaborative style. She listens first, then suggests small, concrete steps clients can try between sessions.
Parents and professionals who feel overwhelmed will find short-term strategies alongside longer-term planning for career and life changes. Practical problems like sleep disruption, low self-esteem, and ADHD concerns are handled with straightforward strategies and tracking progress.
Her approach is calm and flexible, adapting tools from client-centered and attachment-based work so clients feel seen and understood.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Many sessions draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. The Gottman Method is used to focus on communication habits and emotional connection, especially when relationship patterns create ongoing tension. It offers practical exercises to change how people speak and listen to one another. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current bonds, guiding clients to understand reactions and build more supported interactions.Megan treats choosing an approach as a collaborative step. She listens to each person’s goals, tries a few techniques, and adjusts methods based on what seems most helpful. Clients help set priorities and test small changes between sessions so progress feels meaningful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is good for in-depth conversation and visual cues; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging suits quick reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed in
Illinois
Languages
English