Megan Lancaster, LCPC

Megan Lancaster is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maine with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma. Her work also covers relationship worries, motivation, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.

Megan centers sessions on the person in front of her and treats clients as the experts on their own lives. She uses practical strategies to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at short-term relief as well as longer-term change.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness. That mix helps with mood concerns, compulsive behaviors, panic, and grief. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want help finding the drive to make a change.

Megan has worked across a range of issues including addictions, ADHD, anger, sleeping problems, workplace stress, and young adult challenges. She also supports people dealing with domestic violence, abandonment, and communication breakdowns. The focus is on practical tools people can use between sessions.

Starting with a brief assessment, she helps people set clear goals and track progress. Sessions aim to be collaborative, direct, and adaptive to each person’s needs. Her goal is to help people move from feeling stuck to feeling able to act on their values and priorities.

How Megan’s approaches translate to online therapy

Megan commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and goal oriented, which can work well in video or phone sessions where specific skills are practiced and tracked.

She also uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening and working at the client’s pace. That approach helps people feel heard during a live chat, text exchange, or a longer video session where reflection and support are the focus.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are included for regulating emotion and improving distress tolerance. DBT-based techniques can be taught in short modules over messaging or practiced together in real time during calls when a person needs skills coaching.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods that fit the person’s situation, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to keep using.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills demonstration. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and make it easier to fit therapy into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or shorter coaching-style exchanges between sessions.