Dr Megan McEwan is a Senior Counselling Psychologist registered with The Health and Care
Professions Council (HCPC). She holds accreditation as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.

Megan has extensive experience of working with children, young people and families in the
NHS and in schools. She has worked with a wide variety of mental health conditions and is
trained in neurodevelopmental assessment, including ADHD and autism. She also delivers
evidence-based psychological therapies that are responsive to the individual needs. These
interventions might include individual therapy, parent-led interventions and communicating
and working with professionals around the young person.

Megan’s therapeutic experience has included delivering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,
Mentalization, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (informed), Compassion Focussed approaches
and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with young people with disordered eating,
emotional dysregulation, PTSD, OCD, Social Anxiety, low mood, unusual sensory
perceptions, self-harm and suicidal ideation.

Much of her experience is in primary, secondary schools in the state sector, more recently working as Clinical Lead in an NHS provision embedded in a Pupil Referral Unit and, prior to this, working in a Tier 3 team and Neurodevelopmental Assessment Team. She also worked in physical health settings including Guys Hospital Clinical Genetics team and has worked supporting families managing physical health conditions including brain tumours, neurofibromatosis, HIV and gene deletion conditions.

She is especially passionate about working with ‘Looked-after’ young people and
supporting families with neurodevelopmental differences to gain a better understanding of
how these needs might impact generally on mental health. She is currently working as a
Senior Psychologist in a Complex Neurodevelopmental Clinic where she conducts assessments to inform diagnosis of ADHD and autism.

She also supports young people with complex mental health presentations by providing clinicially indicated therapeutic support aligned with their goals and supporting families to better understand their condition.

She has worked as a research assistant on a variety of studies, had a PHD proposal accepted
and contributed a book chapter on using trauma informed approaches whilst working with
complex mental health presentations and marginalised populations in school settings for the
British Educational Research Association.