Megan Prior
Calm, practical support for everyday parenting stress
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Megan
Megan Prior is a licensed clinician who greets clients with a calm, straightforward approach. She frames therapy as practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, relationship strain, and changes in life. Megan emphasizes small, steady steps and offers clear strategies rather than jargon.
Her tone is compassionate and direct, aimed at someone who needs straightforward support now. Megan holds the LCPC credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor.
Background and approach
She brings ten years of experience in mental health and has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, anger, self-esteem, and sleep problems. Her background also includes areas like ADHD, caregiver stress, attachment issues, blended family concerns, and adoption and foster care topics. In sessions she uses practical, evidence-informed methods tailored to each person.
Techniques are chosen to match what the client needs and wants, and can include skills for coping with strong emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, and building more satisfying relationships. She aims to teach tools clients can use between sessions. Megan often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and attachment-informed work into a client-centered approach.
She also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation skills are helpful. This mix supports both short-term problem solving and longer term change. Her practice operates in Illinois and sessions are conducted in English.
Therapy is offered through several online formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Megan commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to change them, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and sleep troubles.She also brings attachment-informed ideas into sessions to help people understand how early relationship patterns affect current interactions. That work looks at connection and trust and helps clients build different ways of relating to others. Megan approaches treatment collaboratively and will help determine together which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. These formats make it simpler to get steady support while balancing work, parenting, or other responsibilities. Licensed professionals can use these tools to teach coping skills, practice communication strategies, and check progress between meetings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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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
Next step
Talk to Megan
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point