- Years in practice
- 15
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida, Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Megan
Megan Rockwood is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults who are coping with anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, and the strains of parenting. She aims to offer steady, respectful care in straightforward language parents can use right away.
Her approach centers on building a trusting relationship and meeting people where they are. She uses client-centered work to follow a person’s priorities and narrative therapy to help untangle the stories that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are offered for intense emotions and stress management. Megan often works with people managing complex trauma, emotional abuse, and difficult family dynamics. She also supports those navigating grief, relationship stress, intimacy-related issues, and shifts in career or identity.
Parenting concerns are part of her focus, including the emotional toll parents can face and strategies for coping. She blends longer-term exploration with skills-based sessions depending on what each person needs. That can mean short practical tools for a rough week or deeper work on patterns that keep repeating.
Megan emphasizes collaboration so clients help set the pace and the goals. Based in Florida, she offers services in English and accepts international clients. Her background includes three years assisting published psychological research before moving into full-time clinical work.
What Megan works with
Everything Megan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Megan helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Megan lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the client and follows their priorities. In practice this means sessions where the therapist listens, reflects, and helps people make small changes that feel doable. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for handling strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions; it is often used when stress and emotional intensity interfere with daily life. Mindfulness therapy offers short practices to notice thoughts and sensations without getting carried away, which helps with anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try out techniques, and adjust methods based on how well they fit the client’s needs and preferences. This collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize skills, narrative work, or deeper exploration.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and relational work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people pace their thoughts and update a therapist between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy parenting life or a changing routine.
Questions people ask about Megan
What concerns does she commonly address?
Megan works with adults facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem struggles, and parenting challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a collaborative, client-centered style and mixes skills work with deeper exploration. Sessions can involve mindfulness, narrative reflection, and DBT-informed emotion skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience as a psychotherapist plus three years assisting in published psychological research earlier in her career.
What credentials and location apply?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) licensed in Florida and Indiana and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported and can she see clients abroad?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.
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