Megan Rafferty is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 30 years of counseling experience. She practices from New Mexico and focuses on helping people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or out of balance. Megan aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can safely talk about stress, grief, relationship struggles, and self esteem concerns.
Her approach is client-centered and attachment-based, with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions emphasize understanding what matters to each person and building on strengths. Megan often helps people notice patterns in thoughts and behavior and try small changes that feel manageable.
She has worked across many roles including counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor. That background informs a flexible style that can include talk work, skill building, and reflection on life purpose. Megan has experience addressing grief and loss, caregiving stress, family of origin issues, and transitions like divorce and midlife shifts.
Megan also supports LGBTQ people, those coping with trauma and abuse, and people facing career or parenting strain. She uses a whole-person perspective that considers mind, body, spirit, emotions, and behavior when helping clients make changes.
People who choose to work with her can expect curiosity, steady attention, and practical steps for daily life. She invites clients to explore meaning, build emotional safety, and move toward more authentic ways of living.
How Megan’s Approaches Can Work Online
Megan draws from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people try new ways of relating. It can be useful for intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, and family of origin patterns.
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and low self esteem.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Megan will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest ways to combine methods. That collaboration helps decide whether to focus more on skills, relationship patterns, or meaning and life purpose.
Session logistics are not listed in the biography, so confirm available formats before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people choose options that fit their energy level, such as audio or video. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and between-session practice to work well over distance, helping people carry new skills into everyday routines.
Megan works with stress, anxiety, grief, self esteem issues, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting and career questions, and related life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a client-centered and attachment-based style, blending practical CBT and DBT skills when helpful to address emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
What is her professional background?
She has 30 years of counseling experience and has also worked as a trainer, mediator, and professor, which informs a flexible, educational approach.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She holds an LPCC license in New Mexico and practices from that state.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or for international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment or cost 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?
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