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Megan Rafferty, LPCC

  • Experience30 years
  • LocationNew Mexico
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, LGBT, and Grief
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Megan

Megan Rafferty centers her work in approaches that emphasize understanding inner parts and strengthening relationships, bringing three decades of counseling experience to her New Mexico practice.

Background and approach

As an LPCC with extensive background as a counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor, she combines client-centered care with practical strategies from cognitive and dialectical therapies to support emotional growth. Megan invites clients to explore sources of stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or life transitions while respecting each person’s values and pace.

She uses a nonjudgmental, holistic stance that attends to mind, body, spirit, emotions, and behavior, helping clients build resilience and greater self-awareness.

Megan has worked with adults, teens, children, families, parents, couples, and groups on concerns including identity and LGBT issues, parenting and blended family challenges, caregiving stress, trauma and post-traumatic stress, intimacy and relationship difficulties, career questions, and end-of-life or hospice-related counseling.

Her practice emphasizes curiosity, strengths, and collaboration to help people find meaning, balance, and more authentic ways of being.

Integrating relational and parts-focused work in online therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) emphasizes noticing and dialoguing with the different parts of a person’s internal system to reduce inner conflict and promote harmony; this approach can be especially helpful for trauma, persistent anxiety, self-esteem struggles, and parts that hold painful memories. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in relationships and explores how early bonding influences current connections, making it useful for relationship difficulties, attachment issues, and family dynamics. Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's experience and values, offering empathic listening and collaborative goal-setting to support self-discovery and empowerment.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to assess needs, preferences, and goals and may combine elements from these methods to tailor the work. This partnership helps ensure the methods chosen fit the client’s situation and evolve as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend regularly, maintain continuity through life changes, and access therapy from home or other convenient locations while working with licensed professionals.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Megan address?
Megan works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, intimacy challenges, parenting and career concerns, depression, and compassion fatigue.
What is Megan's therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental, drawing on client-centered methods and evidence-based techniques to foster self-understanding and practical change.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 30 years of experience in counseling roles that have included training, mediation, teaching, and group work.
Where is Megan licensed to practice?
Megan is licensed as an LPCC in New Mexico with licence number NM LPCC CCMH0082181 and maintains her clinical practice there.
Can I work with her if English is not my first language?
Sessions are offered in English; international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers multiple online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexibility.
How are fees handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Megan?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyLGBTGriefSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesCareer difficultiesDepressionCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommunication problemsDivorce and separationFamily of origin issuesForgivenessHospice and end-of-life counselingLife purposeMidlife crisisPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPost-traumatic stressSelf-loveSexualityWomen's issuesWorkplace issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic Therapy

Experience

30+ years

Licensed

New Mexico

Languages

English