Megan Shea , AASW

Megan Shea helps adults manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and major life changes. She works with people facing low mood, bipolar symptoms, intimacy concerns and self-esteem struggles. Megan is an AASW social worker with eight years' clinical experience in Australia.

Megan hears people who are at a turning point in life. That might be a career change, relocation, a separation or a persistent feeling that things need to shift. Sessions focus on clarity, practical next steps and understanding the patterns that keep people stuck.

Her style is collaborative and direct. She blends talk-based work with mindfulness and body-focused techniques to help people notice how thoughts and sensations link together. Sessions also draw on attachment ideas to look at how early relationships shape current responses.

Megan uses cognitive-behavioural strategies to map thinking and behaviour, and somatic methods to work with physical responses to stress and trauma. She also offers psychodynamic reflection to uncover long-standing patterns that influence relationships and choices.

Therapy with Megan is aimed at helping people reclaim agency and choose a direction with intention. She supports practical coping skills alongside deeper insight work. Sessions are offered in English to clients in Australia through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.

To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. The subscription model used for sessions can be cancelled at any time.

How attachment, CBT and mindfulness work online

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can use discussion and reflective exercises to identify attachment needs and change habitual responses. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In an online session this often includes practical tools such as thought records and behaviour experiments to try between meetings. Mindfulness therapy brings simple attention and breathing practices into sessions to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness; these exercises can be guided during a video call or offered as short practices to use between contacts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences and the issue at hand. That may mean combining approaches or adjusting techniques as therapy progresses to find the best fit.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual connection for deeper interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.