Meredith Mahaney

Hello! My name is Meredith, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Services Provider with 12 years of experience working in this field. I believe in a collaborative approach to therapy that rejects rigid, one-size-fits-all treatment plans and completely bypasses cold clinical checklists. Instead, I view us as co-collaborators working side-by-side through the circumstances that led you to the courageous decision to seek therapy. While I take my job incredibly seriously, I also believe there is a time and place for laughter and lightheartedness, just as there is a time to allow ourselves to weep. We are all souls having a unique, human experience. It is profoundly important to me that we show up as authentically ourselves as we can be as we walk this road together.

I recognized early in life how deeply a person's environment impacts who they become and how they respond to future circumstances. Additionally, I believe in a strengths-based approach to counseling while guiding people to their own answers rather than being hung up on pathologizing past events or focusing on a diagnosis. I prefer to look at humans and our issues through a holistic lens rather than a clinical checklist.

What sets my approach apart is the seamless bridge I build between deep psychological safety and collaborative action. My core strength lies in cultivating an environment where clients feel entirely safe, seen, and heard. However, I combine this supportive presence with a strictly non-directive, collaborative framework. I don't believe therapists are here to prescribe advice. Instead, I partner with my clients as a co-collaborator—working together to deconstruct issues that feel insurmountable and discover tailored, sustainable steps to cope.

In our first session, it's important to me for us to establish a level of trust. I want to hear more about what brought you to therapy, and I want you to feel safe, seen and heard. It's important to me that we build a strong therapeutic alliance, and once we have done that, we will collaborate together to reach your goals through attainable and sustainable steps. Additionally, it's important to me to know what you would like most to achieve through our work together.