- Grief and loss
- Attachment issues
- ACT and CBT methods
About Megan
Megan Tafolla is an LCSW with three years of clinical experience based in Alabama. She focuses on grief, anxiety, and attachment, and works with people facing relationship and family stresses, parenting challenges, career strain, and emotional exhaustion. Megan also lists ADHD, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue among her areas of focus.
She describes grief broadly, including losses that are not tied to death. That includes job changes, relationship endings, fertility or pregnancy loss, and other sudden shifts that leave people feeling unmoored. She offers practical strategies meant to make heavy feelings easier to carry day to day.
Megan draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and move toward clearer values-driven choices. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current trust and closeness. Client-centered methods guide conversations so the person’s priorities shape each session.
Her style is action-oriented and educational. Sessions include tools, resources, and steps to try between meetings. That can mean concrete communication skills, behavior experiments, or short exercises to shift thinking and feeling.
Her background includes work with people experiencing homelessness, veterans, perinatal challenges including pregnancy and baby loss, and older adults. She has experience with foster and adoptive parents, blended families, and parents of children of all ages. Megan aims to combine practical tools with attention to attachment and grief reactions.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, grief, and decisions about relationships and parenting.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thinking patterns and trying small behavioral experiments to shift mood and stress. It is practical for anxiety, stress, and changing reactions that keep guilt or shame active.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and recent relationship patterns shape trust, closeness, and fear of rejection. It can help people understand why certain situations trigger intense shame or withdrawal and support new ways of relating.
Megan views choosing the right approach as a shared process. She will work with clients to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path. That means trying tools in session and adjusting based on what helps someone feel more able to manage day-to-day demands.
Confirm the session formats before you book since the biography does not list them. Many people find online sessions useful because they can fit appointments into work breaks, avoid travel time, or use shorter check-ins when life is busy. Online work also makes it straightforward to use worksheets, link to resources, and follow up on between-session exercises.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
3+ years
Listed in
Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Iowa, Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Megan works with grief, anxiety, attachment concerns, relationship and family stress, parenting challenges, career strain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
How does she approach guilt and shame related concerns?
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and CBT tools to notice unhelpful thoughts and take values-aligned action, while also attending to attachment patterns that keep shame alive.
What is her clinical background and experience?
She has three years of practice experience and has worked with people experiencing homelessness, veterans, perinatal loss, parents, and older adults.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is an LCSW licensed in Illinois and Florida and practices from Alabama.
Does she work in languages other than English or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.