Services
Personalized, evidence-based care for individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan.
Megan Nisenson provides psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan. As a psychotherapist in Westport, CT, her approach is warm, evidence-based, and always tailored to each client's unique needs and goals. Sessions are available in-person in Westport and NYC, and via secure telehealth across Connecticut, New York, Florida, Vermont, and South Carolina.
For Partners
Megan provides couples counseling and marriage therapy for partners navigating communication breakdowns, trust challenges, intimacy concerns, and major life transitions. Using IFS, Gottman-informed techniques, and attachment-based approaches, she helps couples move from stuck to connected.
For Individuals
Megan works with adults and young adults seeking support with anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem, life transitions, and more. Whether you are struggling with persistent worry, feeling weighed down by depression, or working through a difficult experience, she provides a safe, nonjudgmental space for meaningful change.
Using a personalized blend of IFS therapy (Internal Family Systems, Level 3 trained), EMDR, DBT, CBT, and mindfulness-based approaches, she helps clients build insight, reduce distress, and cultivate clarity, connection, and self-leadership. Her somatic and body-based training also allows her to incorporate mind-body tools when beneficial.
Whether you are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or ready to grow, Megan will meet you where you are and help guide you forward.
For Young People
Megan works with children and adolescents facing anxiety, depression, social difficulties, school-related stress, behavioral challenges, and family transitions. She creates a safe, developmentally appropriate space where young people can explore their feelings, build coping skills, and strengthen their sense of self.
Using play therapy, IFS, CBT, and mindfulness-based techniques adapted for younger clients, Megan helps kids and teens develop emotional awareness and resilience. Parent collaboration is a key part of the process, ensuring that progress in session carries over into everyday life.
For Families
Family systems can be both a source of strength and strain. Megan provides family counseling in Westport, CT to help families work through patterns of disconnection, communication challenges, sibling conflict, parenting stress, and life-stage transitions.
Drawing from Structural Family Therapy, IFS, and other systemic approaches, family therapy sessions are designed to enhance communication, rebuild trust, and strengthen the entire family unit.
Common reasons families seek therapy include:
For New & Expecting Parents
The transition to parenthood can bring unexpected emotional challenges alongside the joy. Megan provides specialized support for individuals and couples navigating pregnancy anxiety, birth trauma, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and the broader adjustment to new parenthood.
Whether you are preparing for the arrival of a child, recovering from a difficult birth experience, or struggling with the emotional demands of early parenthood, Megan offers a compassionate, nonjudgmental space to process your experience and find your footing.
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