Megan Gerry, LPCA
Play therapist for kids | therapist for tweens, teens and parent support
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- neurodivergent kids and teens (ADHD, autism spectrum, sensory processing challenges)
- anxiety
- trauma
- behavioral concerns
- parenting support -
Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays
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Intake - (60-75m) - $200
Play Therapy - (45-50m) - $160
Individual Therapy - (45-50m) - $160
Parent Support Sessions - 50m = $160, 30m = $80
Get to Know Me!
I am a lifelong lover of learning and nature who values the healing power of authentic relationships with others. My work is grounded in curiosity, respect and presence. As a former Montessori teacher, I supported children from birth to six years old and as a therapist have worked with children through adolescence and the teen years. I have developed a deep appreciation for individual development, autonomy and whole-child growth.
I work with children and their families, supporting relationships, emotional development and understanding across home and therapeutic environments. I deeply value partnership with caregivers and honor each family’s unique story and strengths.
My work centers on play therapy through a neurodivergence-affirming lens, focusing on strengths, sensory needs, communication differences, and supporting children in ways that respect and celebrate their natural ways of being.
With tweens and teens, I take a person-centered, strengths-based approach that reflects my desire to provide connection, support and respect to each of my clients. I value holding space for when life brings challenges and celebrating it when there are moments of joy.
I like to think of my work as similar to the tides - I help families understand and move through the natural rhythms of their child’s experience of the world. Together, we will learn to notice patterns, anticipate waves and create support that allows children to feel safe, understood and able to grow into their authentic selves.
About Therapy with Megan in Beaverton, OR
Megan is a child and adolescent therapist who supports children, tweens, teens, and their caregivers through a warm, relational, and neurodivergence-affirming approach to therapy. Her work is grounded in curiosity, authenticity, and deep respect for each child’s individual way of experiencing the world. She believes healing and growth happen through safe, attuned relationships and collaborative support with families.
As both a former Montessori educator and therapist, Megan brings a strong understanding of child development, autonomy, emotional growth, sensory needs, and the importance of honoring the whole child. She has experience supporting children from early childhood through the teen years and values helping families better understand the patterns, needs, and strengths underneath behaviors that may feel confusing or overwhelming.
Megan offers play therapy for children, therapy for tweens and teens, and parent support for families navigating anxiety, neurodivergence, trauma, emotional regulation challenges, and behavioral concerns.
Megan’s Areas of Specialty
Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy for ADHD, Autism & Sensory Processing Differences
Megan specializes in working with neurodivergent children and teens, including those with ADHD, autism spectrum differences, sensory processing challenges, and children who experience the world in deeply sensitive, intense, or unique ways.
Her approach is neurodivergence-affirming, meaning therapy is not focused on “fixing” a child or forcing compliance. Instead, Megan works to understand each child’s nervous system, communication style, sensory profile, emotional experience, and strengths. She helps children build self-understanding, emotional regulation skills, confidence, and supportive relationships while helping caregivers better understand how to support their child in ways that feel respectful and sustainable.
Megan recognizes that many neurodivergent children are navigating a world that often misunderstands them. Her goal is to help children feel safe, accepted, and empowered to grow into their authentic selves.
Play Therapy for Children
Megan uses play therapy to help children express emotions, process experiences, build coping skills, and strengthen relationships in developmentally appropriate ways. Play is a child’s natural language, and through play, children are often able to communicate feelings and experiences that are difficult to put into words.
Her therapeutic style is gentle, attuned, and relationship-centered. She supports children experiencing anxiety, emotional dysregulation, trauma, behavioral challenges, school stress, sensory overwhelm, social difficulties, and life transitions.
Drawing from her Montessori background, Megan deeply values following the child’s lead while creating a safe, supportive environment where children can build trust, confidence, emotional insight, and resilience.
Therapy for Tweens & Teens
With tweens and teens, Megan takes a person-centered and strengths-based approach rooted in connection, collaboration, and authenticity. She understands that adolescence can be a complex season filled with identity exploration, emotional intensity, social pressures, academic stress, family conflict, anxiety, and changing relationships.
Megan works to create a space where teens feel respected, understood, and emotionally safe without judgment or pressure to perform. She values showing up authentically with her clients and helping them navigate both the difficult and meaningful moments that come with growing up.
She especially enjoys supporting neurodivergent tweens and teens who may feel misunderstood, overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from peers and themselves.
Anxiety & Emotional Regulation Support
Megan supports children and teens experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, perfectionism, emotional sensitivity, shutdowns, worries, and difficulty managing big feelings.
She helps families better understand the nervous system patterns underneath anxiety and emotional dysregulation while building practical and compassionate supports that increase safety, predictability, connection, and emotional resilience.
Her approach is thoughtful, calming, and collaborative, helping children feel more understood rather than shamed for their struggles.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Megan provides trauma-informed therapy that honors the ways stressful or overwhelming experiences can impact a child’s emotions, behaviors, relationships, and nervous system.
She understands that trauma can show up differently in every child and often requires patience, safety, flexibility, and strong therapeutic relationships. Her work focuses on helping children and families build emotional safety, connection, understanding, and regulation while supporting healing at a pace that feels manageable and respectful.
Parent Support & Caregiver Collaboration
Megan deeply values partnership with caregivers and believes meaningful support for children includes supporting the adults who care for them. She works collaboratively with parents to better understand behaviors, sensory needs, emotional patterns, nervous system responses, and relationship dynamics across home and school environments.
Her approach to parent support is compassionate, nonjudgmental, and grounded in curiosity rather than blame. She honors each family’s unique story, strengths, and challenges while helping caregivers feel more confident and connected in their relationships with their children.
Megan’s Approach to Therapy
Megan describes her work as being similar to the tides. She helps families notice patterns, anticipate waves, and better understand the rhythms of a child’s emotional and sensory experience of the world.
Together, families learn to create support that helps children feel safe, understood, connected, and able to grow into who they truly are.
Therapy Services
Play therapy for children
Tween and teen therapy
Neurodivergent-affirming therapy
ADHD support
Autism support
Sensory processing support
Anxiety therapy for kids and teens
Trauma-informed therapy
Emotional regulation support
Parent support and caregiver consultation