Meghan Howie-Timmel, LCSW
Illinois · 20 years in practice
Meghan Howie-Timmel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in healthcare settings.
License and registration
- LCSW, Illinois
- 149.007951 · expires November 2027
- NPI
- 1467063859 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Meghan
Meghan Howie-Timmel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in healthcare settings. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and parenting concerns. Meghan draws on practical tools and supportive conversation to help people feel steadier day to day.
Her background includes long-term work with people facing chronic illness, high risk pregnancy and reproductive challenges, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She brings experience with aging and geriatric issues, cancer, chronic pain and disability, postpartum depression, and fertility concerns.
Background and approach
Meghan also supports people working through relationship strain, family problems, and questions about life purpose. In session she uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening space and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and shift unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help people notice and make sense of strong emotions, plus mindfulness and narrative approaches to build self-awareness and new personal stories. Meghan integrates gentle movement and body-focused awareness as part of healing. She is a certified Nia dance teacher and often invites simple movement and mindfulness exercises when they fit a person’s goals.
The focus is practical: small steps that can ease daily stress and restore energy. Sessions are offered in English and are tailored to each person’s situation. Meghan works with people to uncover strengths, tend to difficult feelings, and find clearer ways forward without rushing the process.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Meghan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Approaches Meghan names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
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Online support
How Meghan blends emotion-focused and practical approaches online
Meghan uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help people notice and name strong emotions, understand what those feelings are communicating, and respond more gently to themselves. This approach can be useful for grief, relationship strain, and moments when emotions feel overwhelming.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person’s experience and priorities, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which offers straightforward tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. These methods support work on anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Meghan collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She will check in regularly and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and movement-based exercises when helpful, phone sessions can be quicker and use less bandwidth, and text or chat options suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Meghan address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, relationship and family problems, intimacy-related issues, anger, career questions, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include chronic illness, caregiver stress, fertility and pregnancy-related concerns, body image, and life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and practical, using listening, gentle movement, mindfulness, and skills-based work. Sessions combine reflective conversation with concrete steps to manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
How much experience does she have?
Meghan has worked in healthcare settings for 20 years supporting people through medical, emotional, and life-change challenges.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in Illinois and practices there.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are used?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Meghan?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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