About Meridith
Meridith Crocco is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, parenting challenges, and relationship difficulties. She supports those coping with life changes, grief, addiction concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also works with people managing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and trauma-related concerns.
Meridith keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Background and approach
Together they build skills for everyday challenges, like managing anxiety or improving communication at home. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and create action.
Attachment-focused work helps address patterns that affect relationships and parenting. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person. Meridith offers interactive tools and concrete practices to try between sessions.
She pays attention to family dynamics and parenting stress when those issues come up in therapy. With ten years of experience, she draws on a range of strategies rather than a single method. People can expect a calm, understanding presence and practical steps toward change.
If someone prefers remote options, she provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make ongoing care more manageable.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, values-based steps toward those goals while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and navigating life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. This approach is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with stress.
Attachment-Based Therapy examines relationship patterns that started early and how they show up now, which can help with parenting stress, intimacy issues, and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they’ll tailor methods and try different tools until a good fit emerges.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and work more deeply, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, skill practice, or quick support between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent despite work, family, or travel demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English