Greetings!. My name is Meghan, or Meg, and I am a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in working with children, teens, and families. I am originally from Illinois, and I actually did grow up running through cornfields, playing in creeks, and hiding in grasslands. I was incredibly fortunate from a young age to know what I wanted to do - help children heal and grow stronger. At the age of eight, I created my first kid only "group." We would gather in the backyard and talk about school, family, friends, dreams, and life. After high school, I studied psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. During my four-year undergraduate work, I began my formal training, working with teens in a psychiatric residential program, children in an after-school program, and survivors of sexual assault.

     After graduating from college, I was determined to continue a graduate education that would empower me to make a difference in the world while simultaneously studying the brain and psychology. This led me to the University of California at Berkeley, where I graduated with a Masters in Social Work. My passion for research and evidence-based treatment blossomed at Berkeley. I cherished the opportunity to collaborate among the many different departments such as social work, psychology, neuroscience, and biology. I was so enamored with research that I secured a position as a research coordinator in the Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program at Stanford University School of Medicine before I graduated from UC Berkeley.

After Berkeley, I worked at Stanford for 12 years. My position evolved from coordinating research to co-creating therapeutic modalities, writing research papers and book chapters, and presenting information on the genetic and neurobiological etiology of pediatric bipolar disorder in national and international conferences. Additionally, I taught Stanford undergraduate students, research assistants, Stanford medical students, post-docs, psychiatry residents, and psychiatrists on how to use specific diagnostic tools to diagnose pediatric mood disorders and how to provide evidence-based therapeutic methods, such as Family Focused Therapy and Mindfulness CBT Groups for youth with or at risk for bipolar disorder.

     I loved and am proud of the work I did at Stanford, but I missed being able to help more people. For this reason, I left Stanford to start my own private practice. My years of unique experience have culminated in developing an at-home treatment program that allows me to help individuals and families to implement psychotherapeutic techniques into their home life. My philosophy combines family, nature, movement, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy. I use cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, family focused, and dialectal therapy techniques when appropriate. My goal is to provide an individualized, evidence- based, therapeutic program that highlights and builds upon each person’s and family’s strengths. 

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