Megan Du Plessis
Compassionate, practical support for life’s hard moments
About Megan
Megan Du Plessis offers calm, practical support for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She meets each person where they are and listens carefully to what matters most. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at helping someone find small, manageable steps forward.
Her practice focuses on helping with relationships, trauma and abuse, grief, low self‑esteem, stress and anxiety, and addictive behaviours. She also works with concerns such as sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, bipolar and depression, and challenges connected to ADHD or compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Megan tailors her approach to the issues a person brings and their personal goals. Megan uses a mix of methods to suit different needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred ways of working.
She may also use ideas from the Gottman Method or psychodynamic thinking when those fit the situation. Her background includes five years of practice and work in addiction services and bereavement support. That experience informs a gentle, non‑retraumatising way of working and a focus on practical relief as well as understanding.
Megan speaks English and Afrikaans and works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Sessions can focus on building clearer choices, developing coping tools for day‑to‑day life, and repairing confidence after hard experiences. People are encouraged to shape therapy around what feels useful, whether that is practical problem solving or slower exploration of past events.
What Megan works with
How Megan works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Megan commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside a person‑centred way of working. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without letting them control actions, which can be useful for anxiety, grief, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying small behaviour changes to ease symptoms like anxiety, low mood, or sleep problems.She also practises Client‑Centred Therapy, which prioritises listening, respect and pacing the work to each person's comfort. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what feels achievable, and then adjust methods over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text‑based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for in‑depth conversations and when non‑verbal cues help the process. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check‑in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter exchanges, updates between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or travel while keeping the focus on practical progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans
