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Megan Prior, LCPC

  • Experience10 years
  • LocationIllinois
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesAcceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Megan

Megan Prior offers direct, empathetic support for people managing stress, anxiety, trauma-related concerns, ADHD, and other life challenges. She emphasizes practical strategies and steady encouragement so clients can build skills that fit their daily routines.

Background and approach

With a focus on helping clients find workable solutions, Megan aims to create an experience that balances emotional safety with concrete progress. As an LCPC licensed in Illinois with a decade of experience in mental health, Megan brings a flexible, client-focused style that draws from several evidence-informed approaches.

She has substantial experience addressing grief, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting and blended-family dynamics, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to attachment and dissociation. Her background also includes work with mood and personality-related challenges and clients coping with major life changes or trauma exposure.

Megan tailors interventions to individual needs, blending techniques from cognitive, acceptance-based, attachment, and skills-focused therapies to support coping, improve communication, and foster resilience. She encourages collaboration on goals and adapts methods as progress unfolds, guiding clients toward practical tools and a clearer sense of direction.

Integrating evidence-based approaches into online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping clients clarify personal values and take committed action toward those values while developing skills to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions by encouraging flexible responses rather than avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through structured techniques like behavioral experiments and thought records, which are often effective for anxiety, mood concerns, sleeping problems, and attention-related struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships influence current patterns of connection and communication, supporting people who face intimacy, relationship, or attachment-related challenges in building more supported ways of relating.

Finding the right combination of methods is part of the therapeutic process. Megan works collaboratively with clients to assess needs, set goals, and try approaches that fit personal preferences and life circumstances. Sessions may evolve over time as progress is reviewed and interventions are adjusted to better match what is helping.

Online therapy with Megan uses flexible formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options can make it easier to maintain consistent care while fitting sessions into busy days, offering a practical way to access licensed professionals from wherever a client is located in Illinois.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Megan commonly address?
Megan works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and ADHD among other topics.
What is Megan’s therapeutic style like?
Her approach is supportive, engaging, and compassionate, combining collaborative goal-setting with practical interventions drawn from multiple therapeutic models to fit each client’s needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 10 years of experience in the mental health field working with clients facing mood, trauma-related, attachment, and family-related concerns.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with license number IL LCPC 180.013080.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Megan?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseParenting issuesAnger managementCompassion fatigue

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersSelf esteemCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Gottman MethodJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

Illinois

Languages

English

What Megan can help with

Megan Prior works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, anger management, and compassion fatigue.

Megan has worked with clients with concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and attachment difficulties.

How Megan approaches therapy

Megan's clinical approaches include 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), and Gottman Method.

Experience and training

Megan is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Illinois.