- Client-centered care
- Attachment focus
- Practical skills
About Megan
Megan Rafferty is a licensed professional clinical counselor with three decades of counseling experience. She practices from New Mexico and brings a calm, nonjudgmental style to sessions. Megan aims to help people manage stress, grief, relationship struggles, and shifts in life stage.
Megan uses a client-centered, attachment-based approach that focuses on building emotional safety. She encourages curiosity about thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people notice what might be holding them back. Sessions emphasize whole-person balance - mind, body, spirit, emotions, and behavior - so practical steps connect with personal values.
Her background includes roles as a counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor. Over the years she has worked with adults, teens, children, parents, couples, and groups on grief and loss, communication, divorce and separation, parenting, and workplace conflict. She also has experience supporting people dealing with caregiving stress and end-of-life issues.
Megan integrates several therapeutic methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also brings an existential perspective to help people find meaning and direction during life transitions.
People often seek her help for anxiety, depression, intimacy-related concerns, codependency, attachment difficulties, and identity questions within the LGBT community. Her work tends to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs, focusing on practical skills and personal insight so clients can make steady, manageable change.
How Megan’s Approaches Work Well Online
Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and emotional safety. It helps people notice patterns from past relationships that show up now and supports building new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s goals and lived experience, with the therapist following the client’s lead and reflecting what matters most to them.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Megan will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That means trying approaches, checking in about what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
If you are interested in online sessions, please confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow for flexible scheduling around work or caregiving. It also lets people use tools from CBT and DBT at home - like tracking thought patterns or practicing breathing and grounding techniques between sessions - to reinforce progress outside the appointment.
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Experience
30+ years
Credentials
New Mexico
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Megan supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, codependency, caregiving strain, and identity questions related to LGBT concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is nonjudgmental and client-centered, aiming to build emotional safety so clients can explore thoughts and feelings at their own pace.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of counseling experience, with a long history of roles including counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the credential LPCC as a New Mexico licensed professional clinical counselor and practices from New Mexico.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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