About Megan
Megan Tafolla is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on grief, anxiety, and attachment concerns. She brings three years of practice experience and aims to be a steady presence when life feels overwhelming. Megan frames therapy as a collaborative process where practical steps and learning meet emotional support.
She often works with people coping with non-death losses and the ripple effects those losses create. Parents and caregivers figure prominently in her caseload, including people navigating adoption, foster care, blended families, and aging-related stress.
Background and approach
She also has experience alongside people who have faced homelessness, veterans, and perinatal losses including pregnancy and baby loss. Megan favors clear, action-oriented work. Sessions usually include practical tools, brief education, and progress-focused steps clients can try between meetings.
She aims to make heavy problems feel more manageable rather than leave clients with abstract concepts. Her approach draws from several well-known therapies, and she adapts methods to fit the person in front of her. That might mean practicing new communication habits, working on boundaries, or addressing patterns that keep people stuck.
The goal is everyday change that helps with relationships, stress, and self-esteem. Clients can expect a direct but compassionate style. Megan supports people facing grief, parenting challenges, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related concerns, and a range of family-of-origin or attachment issues.
She is licensed as an LCSW in Illinois and Florida and practices from Alabama.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Megan uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that align with those values, which helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how those patterns show up now, which is useful for intimacy, parenting, and family struggles.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Megan discusses different methods with each person and together they choose which techniques to try first. The plan can shift as goals change, so clients help shape what therapy focuses on and which tools are used.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for practicing communication skills and doing more in-depth work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, homework questions, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Iowa, Illinois
- Languages
- English