About Meghan
Meghan Howie-Timmel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in healthcare settings. She helps people facing anxiety, grief, depression, chronic illness, and parenting or reproductive concerns. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier in daily life.
She draws on a strengths-based, humanistic perspective that centers the person’s own resources. Mindfulness practices and gentle movement are often part of sessions to help people connect with their bodies and emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful patterns and build more helpful habits. Meghan has worked with people dealing with high-risk pregnancy, postpartum depression, fertility and cancer-related challenges, and caregiver stress. She also supports work on self-worth, relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Her experience includes aging and geriatric concerns, chronic pain and illness, and family of origin matters. Therapy focuses on exploring feelings, naming what comes up, and finding ways to nurture oneself. Sessions look at practical steps and small changes that make daily life more balanced.
Movement and mindful awareness are offered when they fit a person’s needs and goals. She aims to collaborate with each person to discover meaning, purpose, and greater ease. Meghan meets people where they are and helps them build tools to manage stress and move toward things that matter.
How Meghan’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist creates space for people to name their struggles and discover their own solutions, which fits well in online conversations and longer video sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online sessions can use tangible exercises, homework, and brief check-ins to practice new skills between meetings.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and work through core emotions that affect relationships and self-understanding. This approach supports gentle exploration of feelings during video or phone sessions and can guide calmer, clearer communication in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different formats. That choice can shift over time as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English