Megan Happel, Psy.D., wants people to experience freedom and healing in a therapeutic setting, offering a safe place for clients to bring all of themselves, even in hurt or sin. Through our own brokenness, Megan is confident that we can actually experience God in extremely healing and authentic ways as we bring that brokenness to him—perhaps in even more ways than if we hadn’t.
No matter who Megan encounters, or what someone’s situation is, she believes they are a child of God and deserving of love, care and compassion. In this welcoming approach, Megan works to unwind longstanding or ongoing issues and is skilled at finding the root cause of issues with her clients, making her an excellent fit for people looking to do longer-term or deeper work.
As a clinical psychologist, and having completed rigorous training, Megan brings her keen awareness of clinical and research-based knowledge into her sessions. Typical clients of Megan’s are adults, couples or families struggling with a wide variety of issues, including codependency, spiritual struggles, grief, depression, anger, anxiety, body image, low self-esteem or self-doubt, communication skills, relationship issues, and sexual abuse recovery. In addition, Megan has experience treating eating disorders, primarily binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa.
In her work with couples, Megan often works with situations of infidelity and betrayal, which can be especially complex with couples of faith. Couples might also work with Megan when there is an increase of conflict, trouble communicating with one another, a lack of intimacy (be it sexual or emotional), a history of divorce, or couples who are longing to restore their marriage.
In her work with families, Megan helps with communication issues—families feeling separated, issues with teenagers or family conflict in general; she also walks with families through grief, like the death or loss of individuals, miscarriage, post-partum depression and/or anxiety.
As Megan finds that people can get stuck in the “here and now” of their circumstances, she believes the gospel gives people hope beyond their circumstances—hope when no one else does. She desires to use her clinical giftings to help people discover more of their life purpose and calling as she builds into their self-confidence with compassion.
At Steeple, Megan holds high the opportunity to be part of a practice that allows anyone who enters to feel authentically loved and welcomed with gentleness.
Megan earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at Wheaton College; she received her Masters of Arts in Psychology at Wheaton College and her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of North Dakota. Megan is married and a member at The Orchard—Barrington, where she leads a LIFE Group.