About Meredith
Meredith Millen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in New York with 20 years of clinical experience. She combines practical strategies with a respectful, nonjudgmental manner to help adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and challenges with self-esteem. Meredith writes in straightforward terms and focuses on clear goals during sessions.
Her background includes long experience in school settings and clinical practice, and she has provided most of her sessions virtually.
Background and approach
Meredith uses an integrative approach, drawing from different therapeutic methods so care fits the person and the problem. She values trauma-informed practices and teaches mindfulness and conscious awareness. In sessions she works collaboratively to set short-term, realistic goals and to develop steps that lead toward those goals.
Techniques may include solution-focused work, behavior strategies, and cognitive approaches to help manage panic, mood concerns, and ongoing stress. She also addresses grief, attachment and abandonment issues, body image, and feelings of isolation. Meredith supports clients who identify as LGTBQIA2S+ and offers help around communication problems, caregiver stress, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and life-purpose questions.
She also draws on humanistic and transpersonal ideas for clients interested in mind-body-spirit approaches, and sometimes incorporates meditation and other complementary practices as chosen by the person in therapy. Sessions are offered in English and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Meredith works with each person to shape a practical plan and to track progress over time.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Meredith often uses cognitive-behavioral techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. This approach helps with panic attacks, mood swings, and everyday stress by giving concrete steps to try between sessions.She also applies trauma-informed practices that emphasize safety, pacing, and coping skills. These methods teach grounding, emotion regulation, and ways to manage distressing memories or reactions so people can feel more stable day to day.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Meredith will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that feel like a good match. Sessions are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls for face-to-face work, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited or a quieter connection is needed, and live chat or text messaging for shorter check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep regular contact as progress is tracked.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English