Meghan Maynard is a genuine and warm-hearted psychotherapist. Meghan helps families create harmony and happiness in their homes, helps women overcome childhood trauma, and helps parents feel capable and empowered.
Meghan has nearly 20 years of experience in mental healthcare and has had the opportunity to work in group homes, treatment centers, psychiatric facilities, crisis counselling centers, domestic violence shelters, and educational centers.
Meghan has extensive experience supporting children and youth who are impacted by intense emotions, difficulties with impulse control, and anxious and depressive thinking.
Further, Meghan is passionate about helping women overcome their traumatic experiences and challenges with relationships, emotional regulation, self-harm and suicidal thoughts, and more.
After completing her diploma in Child and Youth Counselling, and her degree in Youth Work, Meghan completed her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. Meghan has completed training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Attachment-focused therapies, as well as training in art and play therapy techniques.
Meghan is excited to help kids, teens, families, and adults overcome the struggles they face. Meghan’s solution-focused and strength-based approach helps families and individuals to achieve their goals in direct and meaningful ways. Meghan also strives to create space for noticing and resolving the ways in which events of the past impact an individual’s present moment.
Meghan adopts an approach of cultural humility in her work and is an advocate for anti-racist, anti-oppressive social justice. In addition to clinical work, Meghan is a Ph.D. student whose research draws on her own lived experiences of neurodivergence and intergenerational trauma.
Meghan is pleased to be a registered provider with the Non-Insured Health Benefit program.
“Congratulations! Today is your day! You’re off to great places! You’re off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.’ You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss
