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Therapist. Straight Shooter. Chips and Salsa Enthusiast.
Hi, I'm Megan.
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and EMDR Certified therapist based in Edmond, Oklahoma. I work with clients in person and online across Oklahoma and Vermont.
I've spent over a decade going deep on the specific things that bring people to therapy: stuck relationships, profound grief, and the kind of anxiety that makes your own mind exhausting to live in. These aren't side specialties I picked up along the way. They're where I've chosen to go deep — on purpose.
Couples are the center of my clinical practice. I'm trained in Relational Life Therapy and informed by the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy — two frameworks that are active, direct, and focused on changing patterns rather than just understanding them. I also work with parents navigating the loss of a child, and with high-achieving individuals who are ready to stop fighting their own minds.
My approach is warm. It's also direct. I'll name what I see. I'll challenge you when the pattern needs to be interrupted. And I'll do it in a way that doesn't leave you feeling shamed or alone in the room.
The short version: I don't just hold space. I help you change.
A Little More About Who I Am
I'm a forever learner — can all the Type A, perfectionist older daughters please stand up? — which means I'm almost always reading another nerdy therapy book and then inflicting my enthusiasm on my clients in session.
I'm a proud Oklahoman, a wife, and a mom to one child earthside and four souls in Heaven. I love memes, dark humor, and a good romance novel that doesn't make me think too hard. Chips and salsa are my love language, and if it were ethical to accept them as payment, I'd be all in.
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At home I live in Guthrie with my husband, our kiddo, and our cat Ember — who occasionally makes guest appearances in sessions and considers herself my unofficial co-therapist. We also have two wild boy kittens, Ash and Patch, who are less helpful professionally but entertaining nonetheless.
When I'm not working I'm gardening (and inevitably forgetting to water things in mid-July), exercising with my girl @growwithjo, or watching cleaning and organizing videos on YouTube as a highly effective way to avoid doing actual chores.
My therapy style is humorous, direct, and genuinely warm. I believe therapy should be effective and worth showing up for. Most of my clients tell me they feel both challenged and supported — that balance is what I'm going for.
What I Believe About People and How Change Happens
The work starts with you — and that's more powerful than most people expect.
Most people come to therapy because of someone or something outside themselves. A partner who won't change. A loss that won't lift. A mind that won't quiet down.
What I've learned — and what the frameworks I work from are built on — is that the most powerful place to intervene is always with the person sitting in front of me. Not because the other people in your life don't matter. But because you are the only one you can actually change.
That realization, when it lands, tends to shift everything.
Relationships are where we get hurt the most — and where we have the greatest capacity to heal.
Most of us were never taught how to do intimacy well. We learned patterns — in our families, in our earliest relationships — that protected us once and now sabotage us. We carry those patterns into our marriages, our friendships, our parenting, without always knowing it.
That's what drew me to Relational Life Therapy. It doesn't dance around that reality. It names the patterns directly, connects them to where they came from, and helps people change them — in real time, with honesty, and without letting anyone off the hook.
Warm enough that you feel safe. Direct enough that something actually shifts.
I've never been interested in therapy that goes in circles. I want you to leave sessions with something — a clearer picture of what's happening, a new way to respond, a moment of real connection with your partner or yourself.
That means I'll take a stand when something needs to be named. I'll challenge a behavior that's doing damage. I'll also hold you with genuine care while I do it.
You don't have to choose between feeling supported and making real progress. That's the whole point.
Training & Credentials
Licensure & Education
Bachelor of Science in Social Work, University of Oklahoma (2015)
Master of Social Work, University of Oklahoma (2016)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) — independently licensed since 2018, following 4,000 supervised clinical hours
Specialized Training
EMDR Certified Therapist™ (EMDRIA) — a voluntary, advanced certification requiring 50+ hours of EMDR therapy and 20+ hours of consultation beyond basic training
Currently completing two-year certification in Relational Life Therapy (RLT) with the Relational Life Institute
National Certification, Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), 2019
CAMS-Trained (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality)
Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor for LMSW licensure candidates in Oklahoma
Opened Gift of Grit Counseling 2022; full-time private practice since August 2023
If any of this sounds like what you’ve been looking for, I’d love to talk. A free consultation is 20–30 minutes, virtual, and low-pressure — just a real conversation about what’s going on and whether working together makes sense.