Megan (she/her) is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor. She is solution-focused and uses Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is regularly engaged in continuing to further her knowledge and to expand her repertoire.

Megan believes that through insight and changed behaviors, one can create a better life and get closer to their most authentic/best selves. She meets clients where they are and helps them to build the skills and self-efficacy to make lasting, self-directed changes.

Some of the issues Megan helps clients with include anxiety and depression, parenting challenges, compulsive eating, adult child of alcoholic/dysfunctional family of origin issues, spirituality, postpartum depression, perimenopause stressors, smoking cessation, and substance use.

Megan has a personal interest in lifestyle interventions and the impact of the pillars of health on one’s mental health and is a Certified Integrated Mental Health Practitioner and is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Scientists are now calling our gut the second brain as that is the area that produces neurotransmitters responsible for mood regulation, the fight/flight response, attention, pleasure and sleep. Successes have been noted with the incorporation of healthy changes to diet and movement/exercises to improve mood and symptomology.

Megan would support the incorporation of positive lifestyle changes to aid in their therapeutic process. On her time off, she finds enjoyment in vacationing and spending time with her family, doting on her pets, self-growth, gardening, cooking delicious and healthy meals and visiting the ocean.

Megan offers a free 15-minute consultation to explore your counseling needs and to answer any questions you may have.

ACCEPTED INSURANCE PROVIDERS:

• CDPHP

• Anthem BCBS

• MVP

• BSNENY

• OON/Self-Pay - Superbills can be provided to you to submit to your insurance company for reimbursement. CommonSense Wellness Network cannot guarantee if your insurance company will reimburse you.

AVAILABILITY:

• Megan is not currently accepting new clients.