About Meghan
Meghan Gallagher is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and struggles with addiction. She supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, anger, career challenges, and ADHD. Meghan works with people who are trying to find purpose, cope with isolation, or face mood and panic symptoms.
Meghan practices from New York and brings ten years of professional experience as an LCSW.
Background and approach
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they are feeling and thinking. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than jargon. The first goal is usually to make life feel more manageable day to day.
Her approach centers on helping people notice strengths and build on them. She talks through coping strategies, problem solving, and small habit changes. This can include planning for parenting challenges, navigating grief, or finding ways to reduce intense anxiety and panic symptoms.
Meghan also offers support for issues that arise across the lifespan, such as aging concerns, end-of-life and hospice counseling, pregnancy and postpartum mood changes, and communication problems. She pays attention to how impulsivity, obsessive thoughts, or disruptive mood patterns affect daily life and routines. She aims to work collaboratively: clients set goals, and she helps design steps to reach them.
People leave sessions with practical ideas to try between meetings. Meghan explains options clearly and adjusts her approach based on each person’s needs and feedback.
Evidence-informed approaches and online support
Meghan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood; it teaches simple skills to test thoughts and try new behaviors. Another focuses on building coping skills for trauma, stress, and overwhelming emotions through grounding, pacing, and stepwise exposure to feared situations or memories. These methods aim to reduce distress and increase daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Meghan works with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She discusses options, tries methods collaboratively, and adjusts what she does based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see visual cues and have a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick support, ongoing coaching, or checking in between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other busy schedules while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English