About Meghan
Meghan McQuade is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 11 years of experience working in New York. She offers straightforward, empathetic care that aims to help people manage strong emotions and change habits that no longer serve them. Meghan keeps goals practical and grounded so progress feels clear and doable.
She focuses on what drives intense reactions - both inside the person and in their environment. Sessions look at how biological needs, learned responses, and daily stressors interact.
Background and approach
Meghan uses that information to build simple plans for greater self-control and steadier mood. Her style mixes acceptance with active skill-building. She listens without judgment and then suggests exercises, small behavior changes, and new ways of thinking that fit a person’s life.
The plan is tailored to each person’s strengths and limits so steps forward are realistic. Meghan works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep problems, self-esteem, grief, and relationship and intimacy issues. She also addresses more complex challenges such as attachment issues, dissociation, chronic illness, and co-occurring substance use.
People who do best in her approach are ready to take an active role in sessions and try practical strategies between meetings. She aims to help clients build lasting habits that support coping, stability, and clearer direction. Meghan practices as an LMHC in New York and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps that align with those values. It helps people cope with painful thoughts and stay active in meaningful areas of life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, targets unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to shift them. This method is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your history, goals, and what feels manageable. Together you will try methods that match your needs and adjust them over time so the work fits your life and priorities.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video helps when visual cues or interactive exercises are useful. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English