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Online therapist

Megan Rafferty

Compassionate family-focused counseling

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Credentials
LPCC
Experience
30 years
Licensed in
New Mexico
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Megan

Megan Rafferty uses a client-centered, attachment-informed approach to help families and parents manage stress and life transitions. She draws on three decades of counseling experience and keeps sessions practical and focused. Parents and caregivers find straightforward tools for communication, coping, and building emotional safety at home.

Megan practices as a LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in New Mexico. She asks simple questions about what is hard right now and listens without judgment.

Background and approach

Sessions often focus on one or two concrete changes parents can try between meetings. Megan mixes talk, problem-solving, and exercises that strengthen family connections and daily routines. Her background includes work as a counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor.

Over 30 years she has supported adults, teens, children, parents, couples, and groups with grief, relationship trouble, parenting challenges, and workplace conflict. She has also worked with caregiving stress and end-of-life concerns. Megan integrates several practical therapy styles to match each family’s needs.

She commonly uses attachment ideas to look at how relationships shape behavior and CBT - cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and coping. DBT skills are offered when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each family’s rhythm.

Sessions aim to help parents notice patterns, practice new ways of relating, and find small changes that reduce stress. Megan works from New Mexico and conducts sessions in English.

How Megan’s Approaches Work Online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions using this lens help families spot repeating patterns and try new ways of relating that increase trust and connection.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions clients learn practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and test small behavioral changes at home.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or combine methods so therapy fits the family’s life and values.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around caregiving and school schedules, to practice skills between meetings, and to keep momentum when life is busy. Licensed professionals can guide parents through concrete exercises and communication strategies without requiring travel, helping families use therapy in ways that suit their daily routines.

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.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she address?
Megan works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and career or life purpose questions.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, focusing on listening, practical strategies, and building emotional safety. She blends attachment ideas, CBT, DBT, and existential perspectives to fit each family’s needs.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of counseling experience, including roles as a counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor licensed in New Mexico with license number NM LPCC CCMH0082181.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with sessions?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
30 years
Licensed
New Mexico
Languages
English

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