About Meg
Meg Skrypkun is an Illinois-licensed LCPC with 25 years of clinical experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, bipolar disorder, depression, grief, and trauma.
Background and approach
She focuses on helping clients navigate intense emotions like anger, guilt, and emptiness while assisting those coping with life transitions and challenges related to mood disorders and substance use. Meg presents a steady, experienced presence for those ready to pursue meaningful change.
Her approach emphasizes collaboration and individualized care, with attention to both immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns such as codependency, co-morbidity, and issues that can emerge during midlife or aging. She creates a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored honestly, and she supports clients as they build coping skills, clarify life purpose, and work through losses.
Meg draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor interventions to each person’s needs and goals.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Flexible Online Care
Meg uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes skill building for managing anxiety, mood swings, and cravings through structured strategies that help regulate emotions and reduce distress. Another approach targets processing trauma and grief by helping clients safely explore painful memories and learn adaptive ways to make sense of loss and post-traumatic reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and then adjusts interventions over time so treatment fits the person rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all model.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives and varying comfort levels. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions provide a simpler option when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These formats increase flexibility and accessibility while allowing licensed professionals to deliver consistent, focused care tailored to each client's situation.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English