Therapy
"The First Act of Love is to Listen"
About Dr. Meag-gan
I earned my Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Northern Colorado. I completed my Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Stanford University Counseling and Psychological Services, Vaden Health Center where I served as Staff Psychologist for six years.
I work from a Liberation Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral framework. I am a contract therapist for LYRA Health and can serve all covered employees, partners, and dependents.
I accept the following insurances:
- Quest Behavioral Health (in California)
- Cigna (in California)
- Anthem Blue Cross California
- Blue Shield of California
- Carelon Behavioral Health (in California)
- Magellan (in California)
I can also provide documentation (superbills) for submission to your insurance company for reimbursement
Virtual Group Therapy
Virtual Group Therapy
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy
For Therapists
For Therapists
For Therapists
SimplePractice CE (Continuing Education)
This course guides participants on an exploration of psychology’s development into social justice. By examining the seven social justice mindsets, with liberation as the highest goal, participants will learn how to incorporate social justice work into the therapy room. Case anecdotes are shared throughout the presentation to demonstrate the application and spirit of this orientation.
1.5 hours CE. Recorded video (non-interactive) format. Case examples include fictionalized elements.
PESI CE
No matter your racial, ethnic or cultural background, this candid one-day (recorded) training will equip you to enhance your treatment with minoritized clients and inspire you to begin using your practice as a source of systemic change!
The ingrained impacts of systemic racism affect every sector and institution of our society, pushing many to the margins by means out of their control. Our therapeutic spaces are not untouched.
Despite our best intentions, many of us are unwittingly committing microaggressions, damaging rapport, and perpetuating inequalities. Without acknowledging power differentials and uprooting our biases we can fail our clients and unknowingly participate in the oppression.
Liberation Coaching
Coaching entails three meetings. In the first I provide a detailed and applied introduction to Liberation Psychology. You will present the clinical cases you wish for us to examine. In our second meeting, I will share my prepared interventions as we discuss how to make these recommendations your own. Our last meeting will occur two weeks after to check-in on your learning and provide closure. Liberation Coaching is a 1:1 safe learning space that many of us did not receive in our formal studies. It is never too late to make your practice a liberating space.
*This is not a supervisory relationship; thus I do not assume any liability for treatment outcomes of your clients*
Group Support
Expert facilitated peer support spaces for collective care.
Dr. Meag-gan specializes in providing innovative and engaging virtual gatherings spaces. Some groups are identity specific others are open to all people and are based on clinical need or interest.
Support space offerings change each quarter. Current group offerings are below.
Black Perfectionism
Clinical Group
Perfectionists struggle with unrealistic standards, harsh self criticism and procrastination. When you add respectability politics with working twice as hard to get half as much (the Black tax), the pull toward perfectionist behaviors within the Black experience can feel inescapable. In this 6-week skills and process group, I will identify the common traps and guide you in practicing the Cognitive Behavioral tools to minimize perfectionism while maintaining your drive toward achievement and Black Excellence.
From Surviving 2 Thriving
Our communities continue to be under siege. The toll of this struggle can go unseen, but should not go unacknowledged. This 6-week process group will honor the ways we have survived through unrelenting trauma and grief. We will center our right to thrive in a decolonized definition of wellness. In this group we will share narratives of survival and learn tangible tools for flourishing while co-creating collective healing. Cohorts for Black women and Black Queer Folx are available.
Cultivating Unconditional Self-Worth
Non Clinical Group
Everywhere you look in our culture, there is the narrative of proving yourself to be of value. Our mental health is eroded by never feeling enough. It is time to divest from conventional ideas and recalim the true meaning of mattering and collective worth.
In this 5-week group you will the meaning of inherent value/unconditional worth. Equipe yourself with tools to protect our minds from the illusion of lack and oppressive messaging and become beacons of virtuous validation for loved ones and communities.
R.I.S.E.
Reclaiming Inspiration Support and Empowerment
Non Clinical Group
This support space offers the best decolonized psychological education for Black professionals navigating excellence without exploitation in corporate, and academic spaces. Discussion themes center mental health and intersections with work, life, relationships, resistance, and community care.
Bi-Gone
Bi-gone is a peer process space for Bi folkx who are in closed committed heterosexual relationships.
This 4-week space are for those of us you feel they have forgone, foreclosed, or not currently living in their bi-sexual identity and could benefit from a guided gathering to hold these experiences.
Support Spaces & Group Therapy
Group therapy is often misrepresented on TV and in the media. Allow me to inform you about the process and power of group therapy as I see it.
Individual Therapy
YOU MATTER
I conceptualized, and work through a Liberation Psychology and Cognitive-Behavioral framework. Cognitive Behavior Therapy permits me to provide a goal-oriented structure, concrete skills, and comprehensive therapeutic support.
Liberation psychology allows me to attend to all of your intersecting identities.
Therapeutic success for me is when new understandings, new behaviors, and self-compassion have been acquired so that symptoms are reduced or management is at a level to which you feel that you are able to function, and flourish without the support of regular counseling.
I look forward to working with you!
Areas of Clinical Expertise: Trauma, Depression, Passive Suicidality, Anxiety, High Achiever Stress, Impostor Feelings, Perfectionism & Self Criticism, Burnout, Work-life Integration, Resilience, Healthy Relationships/ Boundaries, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Compassion for Self and Others, Motivation and Procrastination, Personal Values and Life Fulfillment.
I am not providing couples therapy at this time.
Rates: $275/session