Megan Prior, LCPC
Illinois · 10 years in practice
Megan Prior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strains, trauma, and low self-esteem.
License and registration
- LCPC, Illinois
- 180.013080 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1285246280 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Megan
Megan Prior is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting strains, trauma, and low self-esteem. She writes plainly and listens closely so people can feel heard and begin to make changes. Her approach aims to give practical tools and steady support during hard moments.
With ten years of experience in the mental health field, Megan has worked with many kinds of concerns. These include depression, relationship and attachment difficulties, anger, compassion fatigue, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, dissociation, and other complex stressors. Megan blends several evidence-based approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, dialectical techniques, attachment-focused work, and a client-centered stance.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the person and build skills to manage emotions and challenging situations. People can expect practical strategies they can use between sessions. Megan offers coaching-style guidance alongside psychotherapy when that fits the person's goals.
She promotes small, doable steps toward better coping and improved day-to-day functioning. Megan practices in Illinois as an LCPC, and she meets with clients using online formats. Her style is warm and engaged, with an emphasis on collaboration and respect for each person's experience.
She aims to help people find hope and forward movement even when problems feel overwhelming.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Megan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Megan names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Megan uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as part of her work with clients. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with more effective strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose which methods make the most sense for their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That collaborative process often includes trying different techniques and tracking what helps most over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for ongoing coaching, brief updates, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting sessions around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist address?
Megan works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting difficulties, anger, grief, self-esteem, sleep problems, career stress, and ADHD.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is supportive and collaborative, emphasizing practical strategies and steady emotional support. Sessions often mix skill teaching with reflective conversation.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience in the mental health field working with varied concerns such as attachment difficulties and trauma exposure.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - practicing in Illinois.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She meets with clients through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a therapy relationship?
Start 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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