Megan Du Plessis, BACP

Megan Du Plessis offers a calm, listening presence for people seeking clearer direction. She introduces herself with warmth and focuses first on understanding each person's situation. Megan aims to help clients feel heard and respected from the first conversation. She works in English and Afrikaans and practises from the United Kingdom. Megan follows a person-centred style and adapts her approach to fit each person's needs. Early sessions concentrate on careful listening and helping clients map out their priorities and choices. As therapy continues, she may use ideas from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to try practical ways of managing difficult thoughts and feelings. Her background includes work in addiction services where trauma-informed principles were applied. She also has experience supporting people through bereavement using solution-focused methods. Those roles gave her a range of practical tools to draw on when someone is navigating loss, change, or recovery. Megan has five years of experience and is registered with the BACP, which is listed as her credential. She supports people facing relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem challenges, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and many related concerns. She also works with issues such as body image, chronic illness, caregiving stress and codependency. Clients can expect respectful, gentle conversation and a plan shaped around their goals. Megan's style aims to reduce re-traumatisation and to build small, workable steps towards feeling better. If you want someone to listen and help you make sense of things, she may be a good fit.

How Megan's approaches can work online

Megan often draws on acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy alongside her person-centred approach. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match their values, which can aid with anxiety, low mood and motivation. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your situation, talk through goals and preferences, and agree which methods to try. That process is collaborative and can change as you progress. This profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins between in-person appointments. Some people prefer audio-only conversations when bandwidth is limited or when they want a quieter, less visual check-in. Discuss practical arrangements with the therapist so appointments fit around work, caring duties and daily routines.