Megan Lawson

I'm Megan, MHC Intern (She/her/hers)

My own experiences have taught me that healing is rarely linear. There are parts of ourselves we spend years trying to outrun, only to realize that what we needed was not to become someone else, but to understand ourselves with more compassion.

I have learned that we are so complex. I have been hurting and grateful, I have loved someone knowing it was no longer good for me, I have cried and laughed, and I have been loved and hurt. I can understand why I am the way I am and still want to become someone different. I can carry the moments that changed me for both better and worse without allowing it to decide what comes next. 

I want therapy to be a place where you do not have to perform being okay. You do not have to arrive with the right words, a clear explanation, or a perfectly organized version of your story. You can come as you are. My role is not to tell you who you are or who you should become, but to sit with you long enough to understand the pieces of your story that may have become difficult to understand on your own.

I hope therapy can be a place where you feel seen without having to explain every part of yourself first. Where your story can exist without defining you. Where there is room for both the things that have hurt you and the person you are still becoming.

I believe people are more than their symptoms, their diagnoses, their mistakes, or the worst things that have happened to them. I also believe that the things we have experienced matter. Both can be true.

You do not have to know exactly where you are going before you begin.

Sometimes, you just have to be willing to take the first step.