About Meghan
Meghan McQuade is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 11 years of hands-on experience. She approaches therapy with patience and a basic belief that people are doing their best while still able to grow and change. Meghan focuses on practical steps that help clients move toward clearer goals and steadier daily life.
In sessions she looks at what drives intense emotions and unhelpful behaviors. That includes how biology, stress, and learned responses interact.
Background and approach
She uses that understanding to help people build self-awareness and better day-to-day coping skills. Her work draws on several evidence-based methods such as acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness practices. Meghan adapts techniques to fit each person’s strengths and the realities of their life.
The goal is to create simple, usable tools rather than theory-heavy talk. She often helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, sleep problems, depression, self-esteem, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Phobias are also noted among her areas of focus.
Meghan also addresses complex presentations like attachment issues, dissociation, and chronic pain when those concerns affect daily functioning. Meghan aims for a collaborative process. She partners with people who want to be active in change, offering education, encouragement, and step-by-step plans.
That partnership focuses on steady progress toward more confident self-management and clearer direction in life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them and then move toward values-based action. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and persistent avoidance that gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve routines; it is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and phobias. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment attention and breathing or awareness exercises that reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Meghan will work with each person to match techniques to their goals and preferences. Together they try methods, track what helps, and adjust the plan so it fits the person’s life and priorities.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a simpler check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for frequent brief support, follow-up between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other demands while keeping the focus on progress and practical skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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