About Meg
Dr. Meg DePasquale brings more than two decades of clinical experience to her practice in Maryland. She is an MD and a Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C) who focuses on practical help for people facing addiction, mood concerns, anxiety, stress, and ADHD.
She emphasizes clear, direct support and a calm presence during visits. She helps people talk through trauma, grief, relationship strain, and parenting worries. Sessions aim to make overwhelming problems more manageable.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward strategies and collaborates with each person to set realistic goals. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Clients can expect a listening space where they can speak honestly about hard things.
The work often includes building coping skills, planning concrete steps, and practicing new habits between sessions. She also addresses compassion fatigue and caregiver stress, helping people find ways to recharge and set boundaries. For those struggling with substance use or mood disorders, she offers steady support and practical problem-solving.
Dr. DePasquale values a team approach. She partners with each person to identify strengths and try different tools until something fits.
Her aim is to help people make everyday life feel more manageable and purposeful.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many practitioners use evidence-based techniques that focus on skill building and problem solving. One common approach teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety, stress, and ADHD-related challenges, such as attention strategies, task planning, and brief behavioral changes that aim to reduce overwhelm. Another frequently used method centers on trauma-informed care, which helps people process difficult experiences step by step while learning ways to manage strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans if something does not help. This lets the person shape therapy around what actually improves daily functioning and well-being.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for full sessions and visual interaction, phone calls can work when bandwidth is low, brief live chat or texting helps with quick check-ins or between-session coaching, and these options together give flexible ways to keep regular contact and follow through on goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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