Meg O’Shea, LCPC
Approach the hard parts with care. Live with more ease.
Approach the hard parts with care. Live with more ease.
Trauma therapy for women who are ready to stop abandoning themselves to take care of everyone else.
I work with women healing from complex and relational trauma who struggle with people-pleasing, codependency, boundaries, and trusting themselves.
You may understand why you have the patterns you do…but still find yourself repeating them. Together, we go beyond insight to understand and heal what’s underneath.
You’re used to being there for everyone else.
Maybe you’re the caretaker. The peacekeeper. The one who can sense when someone’s mood shifts before they even say a word.
You second-guess yourself. Feel guilty setting boundaries. Worry about disappointing people. Take responsibility for other people’s feelings. And while you’re great at offering support, receiving it can feel uncomfortable (or even unsafe).
Maybe you’ve done therapy before. You have insight. You understand your patterns.
But you’re ready for something deeper.
I specialize in working with women healing from:
Complex & Childhood Trauma
Family-of-origin wounds, emotional neglect, dysfunctional family dynamics, and complex PTSD.
Relationship Trauma & Codependency
People-pleasing, unhealthy relationship patterns, difficulty setting boundaries, and losing yourself in relationships.
Religious & Sexual Trauma
Experiences that have impacted your relationship with safety, trust, your body, sexuality, relationships, or yourself.
Therapy that goes beyond insight.
Sometimes understanding why you feel the way you do isn’t enough to actually change it.
My approach is active, collaborative, and trauma-informed. I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, and somatic therapy to help us work with the deeper emotional and nervous-system patterns that can be difficult to reach through talk therapy alone.
We’ll approach the parts of you that learned to please, protect, overfunction, shut down, or stay hyperaware with curiosity rather than judgment.
The goal isn’t to become a different person.
It’s to feel safer being you.
Our work may help you:
Trust yourself and your decisions
Set boundaries without being consumed by guilt
Stop feeling responsible for everyone else’s emotions
Recognize and change unhealthy relationship patterns
Feel more connected to your needs and emotions
Receive love and support without feeling uncomfortable or burdensome
Develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself
Individual Trauma Therapy
Therapy is a space to slow down and understand what’s happening beneath the surface, not just manage the symptoms showing up on top.
Together, we’ll explore the experiences and protective patterns that have shaped how you relate to yourself and others, while helping you develop new ways of responding that feel more authentic, grounded, and sustainable.
Available in person in Towson, Maryland and virtually throughout Maryland.