Meg McDonald, LCSW

Hi! I’m Meg, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Meg is a therapist who believes in each person’s ability to overcome challenges and build a life that aligns their values and aspirations. She is committed to providing high-quality, individualized care, drawing on her clients' strengths and resilience to guide the therapeutic process.

Meg understands that recognizing the impact of each client's unique background and experience is integral to providing specialized care and truly understanding her clients' needs. With authenticity at the heart of her work, she fosters a sense of trust and safety with her clients, which creates space for the therapeutic work leading to meaningful progress.

Specialties and Typical Clients

Meg often works with clients who have experienced trauma or other significant life stressors. For many of Meg's clients the trauma they have experienced has occurred within relationships including family of origin, romantic, and parent-child dynamics. She specializes in treating symptoms related to these experiences including changes in mood, anxiety, difficulty sustaining healthy relationships, and parent-child conflict. Meg also has specialized experience in treating survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Her clients include teens, young adults, adults, and couples. Meg works well with individuals who are open to building a positive therapeutic relationship and feel a sense of readiness to explore and create change.

The diagnoses that Meg most often works with include:

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  • Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  • Adjustment Disorders

  • Major Depressive Disorder

  • Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD)

  • Relational Conflict Disorders

Therapeutic Approach and Values

While working together with Meg, developing a sense of trust and safety within the session is a core theme. Focusing on the therapeutic relationship creates a framework for you to feel empowered to explore difficult past experiences, confront unhelpful patterns, and learn new healthy mechanisms to move forward in your life. Meg believes in the resiliency of the human spirit and is committed to helping people discover their path to healing and self-actualization.

Meg is skilled in helping you find direction in the therapy session, whether it is taking time to process difficult experiences, learning how to experience emotional responses, or challenging unhelpful thoughts. Communication is a key part of the therapeutic process in ensuring that the progress you are making feels safe and in alignment with your goals. While balancing trust, Meg also offers skills and support in changing unhelpful patterns, reframing negative self-perceptions, and breaking away from experiences that have kept you feeling stuck.


Meg believes that all people deserve, and have the capacity, to overcome the challenges and conflicts that life brings, regardless of their culture, race, gender, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. This belief in the capacity of all of her clients creates an empowering dynamic where clients focus on their strengths and build confidence in their ability to reach their goals.

Therapeutic Modalities Used:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Trauma-focused-CBT (TF-CBT)

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Relational Therapy

  • Mindfulness

  • Play Therapy-informed

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy-informed

Meg’s Journey Becoming a Therapist

Meg’s strong sense of advocacy led her to the field of social work with the aim of working to empower and educate others. Throughout her education and experience, Meg’s passion for providing mental health resources to others strengthened, leading her to take on the role of being a clinical social worker so that she can work to support the healing of others.

Education and Credentials

Meg has shown a strong interest in understanding the cultures, philosophies, and psychology of others. This led Meg to engage in travel and exploration of different populations of people during her undergraduate and graduate studies. Megan ultimately attended Saint-Louis University for her Master’s Degree in Social Work. 

Since obtaining her Master’s degree, Meg has done extensive work aiding the victims of domestic and sexual violence. Meg has experience working with folks on an outpatient level, but has also worked in higher levels of care.  

Maryland Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical, License #25787

NPI: 1144805292

Services Offered and Availability

Individual Therapy via Telehealth and In-Office Sessions

Insurances Accepted: BCBS plans, CareFirst, Cigna, and Evernorth