Meet Meg
Meg offers Therapy Intensives to support clients with making rapid progress towards their goals. She keeps a small caseload of weekly appointments.
Meg is a queer-identified therapist practicing in Durham, NC. Meg specializes in treating trauma and dissociation and works primarily with children, teens, and families. Using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) as a primary framework for her work Meg sees many current difficulties as connected to difficult or traumatic past experiences. She incorporates Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Sandtray, and Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART) into her work. She considers caregivers to be an integral part of a child or teen's healing and often provides parent support and coaching alongside working with the child or teen. Meg provides gender affirming care to LGBTQ+ youth and walks alongside children, teens, and families navigating questions and needs around gender identity and transition.
Bootsie the Bunny is a therapy bunny who joins Meg in the office several days a week. Her areas of specialty include begging for treats, getting pets, and sitting with clients during their sessions. Therapy animals provide non-verbal resources to support therapeutic work. Regulation, connection, and engagement are a few of the benefits therapy animals can provide. If you are interested in working with Meg but not comfortable with or allergic to Bootsie just let us know.
Meg graduated from Naropa University in May 2012, where she earned a degree in Transpersonal Counseling, with a focus in Art Therapy. She has worked with children, adolescents and young adults since 2009. Her background includes working with children in Therapeutic Foster Care, survivors of human trafficking, in-home family therapy, and work with children and families who have experienced trauma; early developmental trauma including pre-verbal trauma, in-utero exposure to trauma, and early medical trauma; and major attachment disruptions or trauma such as adoption, removal from caregivers, loss of a caregiver, or significant time periods of separation.
Meg lives in Durham with her twin children and her dog. She is an artist and musician. She also loves to cook, read, write, and grow vegetables in the summer
Meg Hamilton, LCMHC, ATR
and Bootsie the Bunny
The Basics
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Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
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Offers Therapy Intensives to children, teens, and families as well as adults experiencing trauma symptoms and dissociation
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Uses EMDR, Flash, Art Therapy, SMART, and Play modalities
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Affirming of all gender identities, gender expressions and sexualities
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In-Network with BCBS (except Blue Home and Blue Local) and Aetna
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Intensive Services are not covered by insurance and are paid out of pocket
Therapy Intensives for Children, Teens, and Families
Meg offers Intensives for children, teens and adults. Intensives allow clients to reach goals quickly, reducing the time spent attending therapy sessions and allowing clients and families to move forward in their lives with hope and healing. Meg offers Mini-Intensives and Multi-Day Intensives. Click the link below to learn more.
Training
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Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC)
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Registered Art Therapist (ATR)
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EMDR, including numerous advanced applications of EMDR for children, trauma, and dissociation
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Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol for Children
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Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies from The Trauma Center at JRI, Boston, MA