Megan Rafferty

Megan Rafferty is an LPCC based in New Mexico with three decades of counseling experience. She welcomes people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. Megan uses a calm, client-centered style to help people notice what matters and learn practical ways to feel steadier in day-to-day life.

Her work emphasizes mindfulness and awareness of body, mind, and emotions. Sessions focus on making small, concrete changes and building on each person's strengths. She encourages curiosity about patterns of thought and feeling rather than judgment.

Megan blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive and behavioral tools when helpful. She also draws on dialectical strategies to support emotion regulation and stronger relationships. This mix is used to address concerns like grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, and trauma aftereffects.

Over her career she has worked in many roles including counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor. That background informs a practical approach to communication problems, caregiving stress, workplace conflict, and life purpose questions. She also has experience with polyamory and non-monogamous relationship concerns.

Megan describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people find balance and clearer direction, working at a pace that feels manageable. To begin, readers should use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How mindfulness and attachment work in online sessions

Mindfulness Therapy focuses on paying attention to the present moment and noticing thoughts and bodily sensations. It helps people reduce reactivity to stress and respond more calmly to difficult emotions.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help people understand why they struggle with trust, closeness, or intense reactions in relationships and develop new ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and how people respond in sessions. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust them over time so therapy fits the person’s needs.

If you plan to try online therapy, confirm the available session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can use mindful exercises, attachment-focused conversations, and CBT or DBT tools in remote sessions to support emotion skills, relationship work, grief processing, and stress management.