About Meghan
Meghan Pardi is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety, work through relationship and family concerns, and cope with major life changes.
Background and approach
Her style is direct and compassionate, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people who are unsure where to begin. Meghan listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
She helps people name feelings, spot patterns that keep them stuck, and practice new ways of responding. Sessions are practical and action-oriented, with room to process hard emotions when they come up.
Her background includes several evidence-based approaches to help with trauma, mood, and behavioral struggles. She uses techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts, build emotional regulation skills, and process painful memories.
These tools are combined to fit each person’s needs rather than used the same way for everyone. Meghan also supports people dealing with grief, addiction concerns, body image and eating issues, parenting strain, caregiving stress, and identity questions related to LGBT concerns.
She helps with work and career stress, motivation struggles, and challenges like bipolar mood management and ADHD coping strategies. If someone prefers remote care, Meghan offers multiple session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The first step is a short questionnaire and a scheduling match to find a format that fits daily life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and daily stressors and often includes homework-like practice between sessions.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided stimulation. It can reduce distress tied to past events and make difficult memories easier to manage in daily life.
Meghan treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will discuss what feels most useful and try methods that match a person's goals and comfort level. That plan can shift over time as needs change, and she checks in regularly about what is or isn't helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing support between longer sessions, and an option for people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across different routines and locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English