Megan McGhee
Calm, practical support for real life
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Megan
Megan McGhee is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience helping people work through stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She practices from New Jersey and uses straightforward, goal-focused strategies to help clients make small, meaningful changes.
Megan aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what feels most urgent to them and make step-by-step plans. Megan favors practical tools you can use between sessions.
Background and approach
She uses solution-focused techniques to highlight strengths and set clear, achievable goals. She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behavior patterns. Sessions often center on concrete steps rather than long explanations.
Her additional work touches on concerns such as autism and Asperger syndrome, communication problems, control issues, attention to mood disorders including obsessive or compulsive patterns, and challenges tied to substance use. She also addresses family problems, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions of life purpose. Megan keeps language simple and direct in sessions.
She helps people break big problems into smaller tasks and practices new skills together. The focus is on what will work in daily life. Clients who prefer clear goals, practical exercises, and a collaborative tone tend to find her approach useful.
She offers multiple online formats so people can choose what fits their routine and comfort level.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Megan uses solution-focused techniques that help people identify strengths and set clear, attainable goals. This approach is brief and practical, and it works well for pressing problems that need direct action.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors. CBT tools are useful for anxiety, low mood, and patterns that keep repeating.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that fit, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process helps dial in techniques that match needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Megan provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so clients can pick what suits them. These options make it easier to use therapy regularly and practice skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point