Megan Rafferty , LPCC

Megan Rafferty is a New Mexico clinician with three decades of experience guiding people through life transitions, grief, relationship challenges, and stress. She has been licensed as a clinical mental health counselor in New Mexico for the past 20 years and holds the LPCC credential - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Her work emphasizes a nonjudgmental, client-centered, and holistic approach that attends to mind, body, spirit, emotions, and behavior.

Megan creates a calm space where people can explore what feels painful or stuck and build emotional safety to try new ways of thinking and relating. She draws on strengths-based methods to uncover meaning, increase balance, and identify thoughts or emotions that may be limiting personal growth. Over the years she has combined roles as counselor, trainer, mediator, and professor while working with adults, teens, children, couples, families, parents, and groups.

Her practice has addressed grief and loss, moving through life changes, stress management, communication and family systems, divorce and separation, marriage therapy, art therapy, parenting, workplace conflict, caregiving, and questions of life purpose. She also works with issues related to attachment, trauma, abandonment, codependency, and intimacy-related concerns. Megan notes she is working part-time and is not able to take clients who have experienced recent suicidal thoughts; she is not currently accepting new clients. She encourages an open, curious partnership to support growth toward a more authentic self.

Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Care

Megan often integrates Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into her work. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence current connections and can help with intimacy, attachment issues, and relational wounds. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration, creating space for clients to lead the pace and focus of change while building self-awareness and self-acceptance. CBT offers practical tools to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and can be effective for addressing anxiety, depression, and stress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Megan works with each person to consider their needs, goals, and preferences and may blend techniques from different approaches to tailor the work. The aim is to find methods that feel useful and respectful of the client’s values and pace.

Online therapy with Megan can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or geographic constraints. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of care when life changes occur.