About Megan
Megan Foley is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Conversations are aimed at building communication skills, easing overwhelm, and finding clearer direction.
She brings 12 years of clinical experience to her work and a long history supporting people with chronic health challenges from her time as a dialysis social worker.
Background and approach
That background informs how she addresses chronic pain, illness, and end-of-life concerns in everyday terms. Sessions often include straightforward coping tools and pacing strategies that fit real life. Megan pays attention to how work and relationships affect mood and self-worth.
She works with people facing workplace stress, social anxiety, panic attacks, and the strain of family conflict or divorce. She also helps people exploring life purpose, forgiveness, and self-love. Her style is collaborative and practical.
She helps clients identify small changes, practice communication skills, and build routines that reduce anxiety and burnout. The goal is to leave sessions with something useful to try before the next meeting. Megan offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions to suit different needs.
She guides each person toward approaches that fit their goals and daily life. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect people to scheduling options.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Megan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and skills people can use right away. One common approach involves teaching concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic, such as breathing strategies, grounding techniques, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tools are aimed at reducing immediate distress and building confidence over time.Another approach emphasizes communication and problem-solving to ease workplace stress, family conflict, and relationship strain. Sessions may include role-play, planning conversations, and setting small goals to improve interactions and reduce tension. For people facing chronic illness or end-of-life concerns, she draws on practical support strategies that help manage symptoms and daily routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods accordingly. This collaborative process helps identify which techniques feel useful and which should be changed or paced differently.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and working visually, phone works well for less bandwidth or on-the-go check-ins, and chat or messaging can fit quick updates or brief check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English