Megan McCarthy

"When the pain is already there, it's compassionate to look at it." -Gabor Mate 

From the moment we are born we are looking for love and belonging. Sadly, the people and places in which we look for it often end up causing us deep pain. No matter how adamantly you may try to manage, control, avoid, or fill the pain, it's there and we can be reminded in unwanted and confusing ways. To deal with this, we adapt the ways we relate to ourselves and others in a way that allows us to survive our circumstances. Overtime, this can leave us feeling "stuck" in the trauma or in these patterns, not knowing how to get out. 

I believe that coming to terms with your pain and how you cope with it, through a process of naming, grieving, and accepting with a compassionate listener, will free you to return to yourself, to live the life you were always meant to live, instead of living in a state of life always happening TO you. 

I work from a trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and person-centered approach. The natural trust and delight that is built overtime between my clients and me ends up being one of the most healing parts of therapy. My clients have described my presence as nurturing, warm, wise, direct, and funny. I consider it a deep honor to work with clients toward living a whole, embodied, free, and abundant life. 

Outside of my office you will find me playing with my daughters, serially rewatching sitcoms with my husband, laughing and crying with my friends, scouring Facebook marketplace, and pretending to be an interior designer with anyone who will let me decorate their home. 

Megan is a LPC-MHSP (temp) working under the supervision of Ashley Boyd, LPC-MHSP-S.