Megan C. Rivas Professional Counselor Associate (She/her)

Megan is a National Board-Certified Counselor and a Registered Professional Counseling Associate (R8105) under the supervision of Joseph Bonnell LPC, CRC, CADC III.

A native of Georgia, Megan spent her formative years in the southeastern U.S. and graduated from North Carolina Central University with a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Prior to becoming a counselor, Megan received her masters in public health and worked as a research assistant on health behavior studies.

Megan’s clinical experience includes working in integrated behavioral health programs that primarily served people with Medicaid. In those roles, she focused on helping people make quick, sustainable changes to their lifestyle to improve their quality of life. 

Megan’s approach is client-centered, warm, practical, direct, and incorporates humor. She works holistically to examine the factors in her clients life which may be affecting their mental health, including social structures, community, health, education, family, work, spirituality, and relationships. Acceptance and commitment therapy, skill development and roleplaying, cognitive behavioral therapy, and existential therapy are some of the approaches that Megan may use to help her client. 

Areas of focus include working with queer and trans people, social connection and loneliness, identity, neurodivergence, grief and loss, platonic or romantic relationships, alternative/nontraditional/traditional relationship dynamics, chronic illness and disability, aging, career development, self improvement, alternative lifestyles, substance use, and navigating scarcity. 

In her free time, she enjoys thinking about all of the hobbies she could be doing, learning new things, talking to strangers, and planning for DIY projects.