Megan Norman, Resident in Counseling

practice

Megan is a Resident in Counseling who provides individual and family therapy to children, adolescents, and caregivers. She is passionate about creating a therapeutic environment where clients feel safe, understood, and supported.

Working with children and adolescents, Megan integrates play-based and expressive approaches to help clients process experiences. She utilizes evidence-based approaches, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Trauma-Focused Integrated Play Therapy (TF-IPT), and attachment-based interventions. Her clinical approach is tailored to each individual client and family system, with an emphasis on building trust and using the therapeutic relationship as a space for exploration, growth, and healing.

Megan also draws from a psychoanalytic perspective when working with adults, with an interest in understanding how early experiences, relationships, and family dynamics can shape the ways we understand ourselves and relate to others throughout life. She believes in exploring these experiences to help clients make meaning of challenges and develop insight into emotions and patterns. Megan has a commitment to utilizing a multicultural lens in her clinical work, emphasizing the importance of identity, cultural background, values, and lived experiences of the clients families that she works with.

education & experience

Megan received her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marymount University and her Bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Spanish from Virginia Tech. She is currently working toward LPC licensure in Virginia.

Her clinical experience includes working with children and caregivers in outpatient settings as well as providing trauma-focused services to youth survivors of sexual abuse and their families. She has also completed training in perinatal mental health, supporting her work with individuals and families.