Megan Hines, LPC

Megan Hines, LPC, helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, low self-esteem, and mood concerns. She supports those coping with grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, anger, career strain, and major life changes. Parents and individuals concerned about postpartum depression, ADHD, or compulsive behaviors will find a practical focus on everyday thoughts and habits.

Megan uses straightforward strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help clients spot unhelpful thinking and build new routines. She brings ten years of clinical experience in both hospital and community mental health settings. That background includes work in individual and group counseling and in higher-intensity programs.

Sessions emphasize learning skills that can be used outside the therapy hour. Clients practice coping tools for panic, cravings, mood swings, and relationship stress. Megan also integrates mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to support motivation and self-awareness.

She aims for clear, step-by-step work rather than long theoretical talks. Conversations focus on concrete goals such as reducing panic attacks, managing cravings, improving communication, or rebuilding energy after loss.

Megan trained and worked with people across inpatient, outpatient, Partial Hospitalization Program, and Intensive Outpatient Program settings. She holds a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision and is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia. Her approach is practical, collaborative, and skill-focused.

How Megan Uses CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness Online

Megan often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and routine behaviors. CBT focuses on small experiments and daily practice to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address compulsive habits.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT-style skills can be helpful for intense emotions, self-control struggles, and patterns that repeat under stress.

Mindfulness therapy shows people how to track moment-to-moment experience without judgment. That practice supports better attention, less reactivity, and more consistent use of the other skills learned in therapy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying tools, adjusting pacing, and combining approaches when useful.

Session formats are not listed here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and offer shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people keep practicing skills in the moments they arise, which supports changing everyday thoughts and habits.