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Meg
Connor,
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Meg Connor is a NH Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with over
30 years experience in community-based agencies, colleges, and a
holistic health center. In addition to her work at MAPS, Meg teaches
graduate students and supervises interns in the Clinical Mental Health
Counseling Program at Antioch University New England Graduate School.
Her greatest satisfaction comes from helping clients move from
confusion, emotional distress and hopelessness to clarity, peacefulness
and purpose. Meg sees being a therapist not only as her profession, but
as her spiritual practice, requiring her to be focused in the present
and open-hearted.
Meg was a founding member of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the largest holistic health center in North America. There she helped develop short-term counseling services integrating body-centered awareness and holistic approaches. As a certified yoga teacher and holistic educator, Meg is knowledgeable in teaching practical tools for stress management. Meg served as area director for the statewide Step-by-Step Career Guidance Program. She provided individual and group counseling to single parents, helping them develop their inner and outer resources to overcome employment obstacles and create better lives for themselves and their families. Meg has also worked as a Co-Director and Houseparent for troubled adolescents (Exeter Area Youth Group Home), as a counselor for college students (in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire) and as a crisis center counselor in Newton, MA. Locally, she interned on the Monadnock Family Services Adult Outpatient Team where she conducted individual, couples and group therapy and was trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Having grown up in a family of 10, and as a dedicated mother herself, Meg has a deep love for families and children of all ages. She enjoys helping parents and kids improve communication skills and family life. Spirituality has been a life-long interest for Meg, having studied various paths and faith traditions, and has practiced meditation for many years. She completed a year-long training program in Spiritual Psychology at the Concord Institute in Concord, Mass. Now at mid-life, Meg works with clients to tap into their own spiritual path, whatever that may be, as a source of strength and inspiration in their therapeutic process and daily lives. Areas of clinical interest and experience include depression and anxiety, career and life transitions, couples and family communication, trauma recovery and women’s issues. Meg has advanced training in EMDR, a treatment that is highly effective in helping clients process and integrate traumatic events, such as physical, emotional or sexual abuse, or the trauma of war, accidents, natural disasters, etc. Meg can be reached at MAPS by telephone at (603) 355-2244, ext. 118; by mail at MAPS, 19 Federal St. Keene, NH 03431; by fax at 603-355-2299; or email at MConnor@MAPSnh.org. |
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