Megan played on a regional finalist club soccer team and Maryland State's Olympic Development Program (soccer) as well as top club lacrosse teams in Maryland. She went on to get recruited by and received a scholarship to play both NCAA Division 1 soccer and lacrosse at UMBC, Captaining the lacrosse team. Upon graduating from UMBC with a bachelor's degree in psychology and minor in social welfare, she became an instructor with Outward Bound (backpacking non-profit). Her experiences taking teens into the wilderness as an instructor for Outward Bound led her to decide to pursue a career as a mental health therapist. 

 

She began her career as an addictions therapist in Essex MD, also working part time administering and interpreting results of psychological tests in a school setting in Baltimore County (mostly IQ testing for IEP purposes). She eventually moved to providing therapy in the Cecil County school system through Upper Bay Counseling in Elkton, MD. During this time, she also coached lacrosse and later club soccer in the area, eventually getting certified as a personal trainer through the American Counsil on Exercise (ACE CPT) and Precision Nutrition L1 nutrition coach, both of which she maintains to this day. From 2015-2-2020 she coached CrossFit coaching and did nutrition coaching at Equity Fitness, in Elkton. During that time, she also engineered a program called “UBFIT” where teen clients from Upper Bay Counseling were bussed to the Equity Fitness to participate in group therapy that had a fitness component. On top of her ACE CPT, she also has certifications through ACE as a Fitness Nutrition Specialist, Orthopedic Exercise Specialist and Sports Performance Specialist.

 

After 10 years working community behavioral health settings, she opened her own private practice offices in Newark, DE and Elkton, MD in 2020. She is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and EMDR 2.0 trained as well as trained in Brain Spotting, Flash Technique/Four Blinks and was most recently trained in Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). She specializes in PTSD, CPTSD, childhood developmental trauma and attachment wounding, anxiety disorders, emotional dysregulation disorders, OCD, depression, addiction issues, relational issues, self-concept issues, codependency, LGBTQ issues, sports psychology, teens and family therapy. Her primary therapy modalities are Internal Family Systems Therapy and Accelerated  Experiential Dynamic Therapy/Gestalt Therapy, but she also is trained in and uses techniques from  Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Exposure and Response Prevention.

 

Her Elkton office is unique in that it is inside of her home where she has access to a full CrossFit style gym. She has the ability to use the gym as a therapeutic tool with specific populations or those that are interested. She has experience working with athletes from high level youth-Olympic/D1 bound as well as collegiate athletes of all levels. She brings a specialized level of expertise to athletes in that she has a deep understanding of classic sport psychology but also mixes in the art of her extensive background and tools as a trauma therapist, that those who specialize in Sport Psychology only may not have access to or experience with and can be very effective for athletes who's issues my look as though they are present only in sport but which actually stem from issues in life outside their sport (which is often the case). She has given more than a dozen seminars to collegiate teams and business organizations since 2020. Outside of working full time as a psychotherapist, she is a Precision Nutrition Level 1 Coach and ACE Certified Nutrition Specialist and do nutrition coaching both online and in person at my Newark location. 

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Additionally, it is relevant to note that Megan has competed in more than a dozen triathlons both Olympic and sprint distance, placing in the 3 in her age group in all but one. She has had some experience in her 20's competing in snowboarding "rail jams" where she used and applied many visualization and other sport psych techniques. She also has competed in countless CrossFit competitions and most recently picked up ice hockey playing on a men's league team and women's league team (Delaware Bobcats Gold Team), all of which she feels keep her connected to her sports psych clients and in touch with sports psych tools and techniques as she continues to use and apply them herself. 

 

Lastly, she runs a free LGBTQ+ support group at Sean's House on the last Wednesday of every month as well as volunteers through Paws for People with her therapy dog Hudson. She also loves to read and learn and especially has a deep interest in neuroscience and the brain-body connection. She loves to understand so she can explain to interested clients exactly why certain therapeutic techniques might be useful and what is going on in the brain and body when they are applied. 

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