Megan Whitehurst

If you’ve spent a lot of time trying to hold everything together, understand everyone else, or figure out why the same patterns keep showing up in your life, therapy can be a place to finally slow down and turn that attention toward yourself.

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who believes therapy should be a space where you feel genuinely seen, respected, and supported. I bring clinical knowledge and experience to our work while prioritizing focus on your values, identities, strengths, and lived experiences. I especially enjoy working with clients who are navigating relationship challenges, difficult family dynamics, trauma, self-worth, boundaries, anxiety, or major transitions and are ready to better understand themselves and create meaningful change. I believe therapy should be practical: my hope is that you leave sessions with not only greater insight, but also something you can use in your everyday life.

My approach to therapy is trauma-informed, relational, strengths-based, and collaborative. I believe meaningful change happens once we understand both what has happened to us and how those experiences continue to influence our thoughts, emotions, bodies, relationships, and choices.

I draw from a variety of approaches, including Narrative Therapy, attachment and family systems perspectives, DBT, mindfulness, somatic approaches, nervous system regulation, and solution-focused therapy. Rather than relying on one modality, I tailor our work to you and what you need in the moment. Sometimes that means learning concrete tools to manage overwhelming emotions or regulate your nervous system; other times, it means slowing down and exploring patterns, relationships, beliefs, or experiences that have shaped how you see yourself.

Our first session is an opportunity for us to get to know one another and begin creating a foundation for our work together. We’ll talk about what brings you to therapy, what you’re hoping will be different, and the experiences or patterns that feel most important to you right now. I’ll also ask questions about your relationships, strengths, current supports, and what has helped (or hasn’t helped) in the past.

You don’t need to arrive with everything figured out, and you don’t need to tell your entire story all at once. Especially when trauma is part of someone’s history, I believe in moving at a pace that feels safe and manageable rather than pushing for details before there is trust and stability.

By the end of our first session, I hope you have a sense that you have found a space where you can be honest, curious, and fully yourself. We’ll begin identifying goals for therapy together and may also identify an initial skill, perspective, or area to focus on between sessions. My goal is for you to leave feeling heard, understood, and with a clearer sense of where we can go together.