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"Real change happens when every part of you feels heard—at home, at work, and inside yourself.”

— Megan Nisenson

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Megan Nisenson is a licensed psychotherapist with over a decade of experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life’s challenges with clarity, resilience, and connection.

 

As a wife and mother of three, Megan brings both professional expertise and lived understanding to her work. She knows firsthand how complex and demanding family life, personal growth, and career transitions can be, and she meets her clients with warmth, empathy, and practical guidance.

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Megan earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Fordham University and her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Central Connecticut State University. She began her clinical career at a Connecticut Youth Services Bureau where she worked with youth and families, led school-based therapy groups, and supported mental health programs from elementary through high school.

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Her experience expanded into clinical supervision and behavioral consultation for a state-funded agency providing in-home services to families in crisis and those with special needs. At Fairfield Counseling Services, a community-based mental health center offering accessible care, Megan deepened her expertise in family systems therapy while supporting clients from childhood through adulthood.

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Since founding her private practice in 2014, Megan has offered highly personalized, evidence-based care for children, teens, adults, couples, and families. Her approach is grounded in deep listening, collaboration, and the belief that meaningful change is possible at any stage of life.

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Clinical Approach & Advanced Training

Megan’s therapy draws from a wide range of evidence-based models, including:

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS), Level 3 trained (IFS Institute)

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Certified (EMDRIA)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

  • Structural Family Therapy

  • Narrative and Solution-Focused Therapy

  • Mindfulness and self-compassion–based interventions

  • Shame-informed and trauma-responsive care

 

Megan is also a certified yoga instructor for children and teens, and integrates somatic and mind-body tools when beneficial.

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Executive Coaching & Professional Development​

Alongside her clinical work, Megan offers executive coaching for professionals across fields including technology, law, healthcare, education, and entrepreneurship. She draws on her clinical insight and systems perspective to help leaders and high achievers:

  • Strengthen emotional intelligence

  • Manage burnout and internal pressure

  • Improve communication and leadership presence

  • Navigate transitions, decision-making, and team dynamics

  • Align personal values with professional roles

Her coaching is grounded in IFS-informed leadership work and years of experience supporting high-functioning individuals under pressure helping clients achieve not just better performance, but deeper, more sustainable growth.

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Areas of Specialty

Megan works with individuals, couples, and families navigating:

  • Anxiety disorders (GAD, social anxiety, health anxiety, separation anxiety, phobias)

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Depression and mood disorders

  • Trauma and PTSD, including childhood trauma and sexual abuse

  • Parenting, relationship, and family system challenges

  • Transitions: college, career, young adulthood, and parenthood

  • Postpartum depression and anxiety

  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), eating disorders

  • Trichotillomania and dermatillomania

  • ADHD

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

  • Insomnia and sleep issues

  • Mindfulness and performance support for athletes and executives

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Workshops & Professional Memberships​

Megan has presented workshops on Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and has contributed to educational efforts on youth sexual assault prevention. She is a clinical member of:

  • American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

  • Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)

  • International Coaching Federation (ICF)

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