About Meghan
Meghan Corkill draws on a client-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and relationship challenges. She is a licensed clinician with 21 years of experience and holds LCPC and Licensed Mental Health Counselor credentials. Meghan practices in Illinois and offers practical, down-to-earth support for common struggles like low self-esteem, grief, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
She adapts conversations to each person's goals. Sessions focus on what matters to the client and on skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Meghan uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people notice patterns and make small, useful changes. For relationship concerns she applies parts of the Gottman Method to improve communication and repair cycles that keep problems repeating. Mindfulness practices are offered for stress, anxiety, and to build emotional balance.
These tools are presented simply and practiced together in session. Meghan has worked with a wide range of issues, including trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar mood concerns, parenting strain, and caregiving stress. She also addresses identity and intimacy-related topics and supports people navigating complex life events such as adoption, aging, or medical-related challenges.
Her background includes school counseling experience and work with education systems, which informs how she helps parents and caregivers think about supports and plans. Sessions are shaped to meet each person's circumstances and practical needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and adapting to what matters to each person. In online sessions this looks like conversations shaped around the client’s goals and real-life challenges, with the therapist offering reflections and practical next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches ways to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain problems. Online CBT sessions often include brief exercises, homework between meetings, and tracking tools to notice patterns in mood, sleep, or anxiety.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. In remote work DBT skills can be practiced in-session, then refined through short messaging or live chat check-ins as needed.
Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences to choose which approaches to try first and will adjust methods over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text are useful for quick skill practice, mood tracking, or brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Iowa
- Languages
- English