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Megan Shaffer

Megan Shaffer

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Client Ages: Preteens (11-13), Adolescents (14-19), Adults (20-64), & Seniors (65+)

Formats: Individuals, Couples, & Families

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” - Maya Angelou

 

Megan is a licensed social worker with over 10 years of experience. She received her bachelor’s in social work and masters of education as an intervention specialist from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.  She also obtained a master’s of social work from Case Western Reserve University.

She has worked in hospice to provide therapeutic intervention to families, individuals, and couples as they work through major life events. Additionally, she has worked within the hospital systems for oncology, obstetrics, hospice, crisis, and as a case manager providing therapy to a range of complex needs.

Megan believes in building relationships with clients and allowing a holistic therapeutic relationship to naturally occur. She is focused on combinations of modalities, including, mindfulness, strength-based, motivational interviewing, and CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), that are individualized and tailored to each case.

 

She will create different ways to communicate that allows the individual to develop through their most effective communication style. Megan specialize in depression, post-partum mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, crisis, life changes, grief and loss, SUD, behavioral, and adjustment disorders. I work with individuals, families, youth, and couples.

Specializations:

ADHD
Adolescent Issues
Adoption
Alzheimer's
Anger Management
Antisocial Personality
Anxiety
Behavioral Issues
Bipolar Disorders
Career Coaching
Chronic Illness
Chronic Impulsivity
Chronic Pain

Codependency
Coping Skills
Depression
Divorce
Domestic Violence
Dual Diagnosis
Emotional Disturbance
Family Conflict
Grief
Hoarding
Infertility
Infidelity
Intellectual Disorders

Learning Disability
LGBTQIA+
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Marital Therapy
Men's Issues
OCD
ODD
Parenting Issues
Peer Relationships
Pregnancy Postpartum
Pregnancy Prenatal

Premarital Therapy

PTSD
School Issues
Self-Esteem
Self-Harming
Sexual Abuse
Stress
Teen Violence
Trauma
Women's Issues

Treatment Types:

Attachment Based
Biofeedback
CBT
Coaching
Compassion Focused
Culturally Sensitive
DBT

Emotionally Focused
Experiential Therapy
Family Issues
Family Systems
Humanistic
Integrative Therapy
Internal Family Systems

Interpersonal Therapy
Intervention Therapy
Marital Issues
MBCT
Motivational Interviewing
Music Therapy
Narrative Therapy

PACT
Person-Centered
Relational
Strength-Based
Trauma Focused

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