I love working with individuals who have experienced loss, grief and traumas, be it through family traumas, death of a loved one, adoption and foster care, or other events. I especially enjoy working with children and teenagers while supporting their parents on the healing journey. I also enjoy working with adult adoptees and offer pre-adoption counseling with individuals using TBRI principles, attachment, expectations, and processing their own grief/loss if applicable.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
For our first session, I like to gather information to help me better understand more about you and your needs for therapy. We will set some goals for what future sessions will look like.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I am easy to talk to and down to earth. I have been working in the field of mental health over twenty years and as a clinical therapist over ten years. I am looking forward to working with you!
About Megan Jernigan
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Eclectic
I use an eclectic approach with individuals and families, using trauma informed and evidence based methods as well as integrating faith-based Christian counseling into sessions.
Child Parent Psychotherapy
I use CPP with children zero to six (and their caregiver) who have experienced trauma, attachment needs, and challenging behaviors. I use play, play based learning, and bibliotherapy in this model. I meet with the child and caregiver together as well as working with the caregiver in some individual parenting sessions as well. We can do this via teletherapy with planning.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT especially with individuals with anxiety disorders, and I use CBT with exposure therapy for individuals with specific fears. We can do this with planning via teletherapy sessions.
Play Therapy
I use paly therapy with children and caregivers when working on attachment, parenting challenges, and communication needs. I often times use this with younger children up to middle school aged youths.
Trauma-Focused CBT
I use TFCBT with children and teens ages three to eighteen who have experienced trauma and are having symptoms as a result. I work mostly with the individual and have some parent sessions as well. This can be done via teletherapy.