Megan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker that enjoys working with adolescents, emerging adults, and adults. Megan received her Master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Following her degree, Megan joined the Peace Corps and spent two years working in a variety of youth and community development projects in Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa. Following her time in the Peace Corps, Megan worked as a school social worker at a therapeutic day school for students on the Autism spectrum. Most recently, Megan has spent the last five years working in community mental health as a therapist, lead therapist and then manager of crisis services. Megan utilizes a strengths-based approach in therapy. She likes to work with each client to determine which modality will best help them meet their therapy goals. Megan has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), complex trauma, Social Thinking, and crisis intervention. Megan believes the best opportunity for change comes from not only working with the client but also ensuring that each client is building a system of support outside of therapy in order to continue this work outside of sessions. Megan enjoys working with adolescents-adults with a particular focus on the emerging adult population.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

Our first session is really focused on getting to know each other and making sure that we have a good fit. I want to get to know you and how I can best support you. I want to also give you the opportunity to get to know me and feel comfortable. We will go over some specifics such as confidentiality, informed consent, and the late cancel/no show policies but we will also spend time talking about what it is that you are really looking to accomplish in therapy.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

I believe that my greatest strength as a therapist is my compassion and passion. I'm really interested in meeting each client where they are at and best supporting them achieve their goals. Therapy is not something I am doing to a client, rather it's a journey you are working through and I'm your support along the way.

Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.

I really enjoy working with clients that are in a transition in their lives, ie school, workplace, career, relationships, parenthood. Transitions are a natural time for us to start thinking about who we are and who we want to be. I really love helping people process those changes and work through the "what comes next?" question.

About Megan Wicklund