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Meg
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Meg Connor is a New Hampshire 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 in the Applied Psychology department at Antioch New England Graduate School and also at New Hampshire Community Technical College. 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. For the five years before Meg came to MAPS, she served as area director for the statewide Step-by-Step Career Guidance Program. She provided individual and group counseling to low-income single parents, helping them develop their inner and outer resources to overcome employment obstacles and create better lives for themselves and their families. 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 has also worked as a Co-Director and Houseparent for troubled adolescents (Exeter Area Youth Group Home), for 6 years as a counselor for college students (in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire) and for 4 years as a crisis center counselor (Newton-Wellesley-Weston Multi Service Center 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 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 women’s issues, career and life transitions, depression and anxiety, couples and family communication, and survivors of emotional, sexual, and cult abuse. Meg may be reached at MAPS by telephone at (603) 355-2244, ext. 118; Mail: MAPS, 19 Federal Street, Keene, NH 03431; FAX: 603-355-2299; or email: MConnor@MAPSnh.org |
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