Megan Prior, LCPC
Licensed in Illinois · 10 years in practice
Megan Prior welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn.
License and registration
- LCPC, Illinois
- 180.013080 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1285246280 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Megan
Megan Prior welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She writes plainly and listens carefully so parents and individuals can say what they need. As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois, she brings ten years of experience in mental health to each session.
Megan helps with common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trouble sleeping. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career questions, and ADHD-related challenges.
Background and approach
She uses everyday language and practical strategies people can use between sessions. Her approach blends several therapeutic styles to match each person’s needs. Sessions are collaborative - she helps people set clear goals and choose tools that fit their life.
Expect straightforward techniques for coping, communication, and managing emotions. Megan has a background working with trauma, attachment difficulties, and a broad range of mood and behavioral concerns. She adapts methods such as behavioral skills, mindfulness, and emotion-focused work to the situation at hand.
Her focus is on helping people find ways to feel more steady and make useful changes. People who meet with her often work on building better routines, improving relationships, managing anger, and coping with major life changes. She encourages small, concrete steps and practices that can make day-to-day life easier.
The emphasis is on practical help and steady progress.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Megan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Megan names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on small, meaningful steps and is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and teaches practical skills to change patterns. CBT can help with depression, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current trust and connection. It helps people understand relationship patterns and supports clearer communication and safer emotional closeness.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps the person make steady progress.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short updates, ongoing coaching, or flexible check-ins between longer sessions. These options support consistent work on goals while offering practical flexibility.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Megan supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, ADHD concerns, and related areas such as codependency and attachment issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is supportive, engaging, and practical. She blends approaches to match each person's needs and focuses on clear tools for coping and communication.
How much experience does this therapist have?
She has ten years of experience working in the mental health field with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and attachment difficulties.
What credentials and region should I know about?
She is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, listed as an IL LCPC, and practices in Illinois.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which formats are available for sessions?
Sessions are provided by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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