About Megan
Megan Gervais is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eighteen years of practice in social work and mental health settings. She works in Connecticut and brings broad experience from hospital care, chronic illness support, and child welfare. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth for people who feel overwhelmed by change or loss.
She helps people who are managing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and addiction-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with caregiver strain, end-of-life decisions, fertility and postpartum struggles, and challenges tied to chronic pain or illness.
Background and approach
Megan draws on a mix of approaches to match each person’s situation. Sessions are client-centered and collaborative. She tends to use solution-focused work to set small, achievable goals and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice unhelpful thinking patterns.
Motivational Interviewing and Internal Family Systems ideas are available if those fit the person’s goals and story. Megan likes to keep things practical. She works with each person to build a short-term plan when that helps, and shifts the focus as needs change.
Many people come for help with life transitions, relationship stresses, sleep, or self-esteem and leave with clearer steps to try between sessions. She believes asking for support is a sign of strength. The tone in sessions is calm, direct, and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping people move forward one step at a time.
How her approaches translate to online care
Megan uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person’s concerns and choices. This approach means sessions are shaped by what matters most to the client and proceeds at a comfortable pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to improve mood and anxiety.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Megan treats that as a collaborative process and will help you try one method and adjust if needed. Goals, values, and day-to-day demands guide which techniques are used and how sessions are paced.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English