About Megan
Megan Murphy is a licensed clinical social worker in California. She brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on practical help for common struggles. She works with people coping with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, career stress, depression, and attention-deficit concerns.
Megan talks plainly and keeps the work focused on next steps and small changes. In sessions she centers the person's story and strengths. She invites people to describe what they want to change, then helps break those goals into manageable steps.
Background and approach
Conversations often look at patterns of thinking and behavior, daily routines, and how past hurts affect current choices. Megan also addresses related issues such as abandonment and attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, and impulsivity. She helps people sort feelings like guilt, shame, isolation, and grief so they can take clearer action in work and life.
Practical tools and straightforward planning are common parts of the work. Her approach is collaborative. She listens first, then suggests techniques that match each person's needs.
Sessions can include checking on mood, practicing new ways to handle stress, and setting small experiments to try between meetings. People meet with her by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on therapist availability.
Practical Approaches and Online Care
Megan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on everyday change and coping. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking and habitual reactions, then tests new ways of responding in small steps to improve mood and reduce overwhelm. This approach is useful for depression, anxiety, and panic symptoms.Another frequently used method focuses on processing past hurt and patterns that keep repeating. It helps people notice how early attachment experiences show up now and teaches new ways to manage strong emotions and repair relationships with themselves and others. This work is often useful for trauma, grief, and abandonment concerns.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to goals and try different techniques to see what fits best. Clients and the therapist decide together which strategies to keep, adapt, or set aside as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay consistent with treatment. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit into a busy day, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins or notes between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and fit therapeutic work into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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