Chill vibe. Warm heart.
Someone once asked me whether I thought my job was to help people or to serve people. I definitely considered the question but neither choice seemed to fit. I think my job is to accompany. This isn’t a passive process—you bring me into your world and as our relationship grows, I notice stories that seem to be playing on loop—you know the ones: moments that cause you to say, “Here we go again!” We zoom in. We zoom out. I get curious. Sometimes we decide to celebrate how far you’ve come. Sometimes we decide your quality of life would improve if you could stop going in circles. Along the way, I might surprise you with my characteristically chill vibe and warm heart. And together, we might figure out how you can surprise yourself.
Quick wit.
It is true: sometimes we cry in therapy! But you know what? We also laugh! We laugh so much. I take pride in how often shared levity allows my clients to leave our sessions laughing. I’ll greet you as genuinely as I am capable and this means showing playful affection for the idiosyncrasies that make us human.
Professional History
Dr. Megan B. Marsh is a licensed clinical psychologist leveraging psychodynamic, emotion-focused, and somatic perspectives to develop healing relationships. Dr. Marsh’s work is deeply relational; she specializes in adult identity development, major life transitions, and college adjustment with a special interest in trauma recovery including physical, relational, and socio-historical forms.
Many of Dr. Marsh’s clients are driven perfectionists (academics, entrepreneurs, first-responders, therapists) who have experienced a profoundly disorienting life event or who know they crave more soul and depth in their lives. She uses a balance of casual affirmation with discerning curiosity to establish security in sessions.
Dr. Marsh is known for forming strong connections with individuals who are disinclined to trust—who may even doubt the utility of talk therapy—and who are well-practiced at (yet also tired of) taking care of themselves. She works with each client to understand the unique conditions they need in order to set down their guard and experience the peace and restoration of non-vigilance.
Prior to opening her small private practice in Portland, Maine, Dr. Marsh was the Associate Director of Counseling Services at Colby College where she supported students negotiating the many opportunities and demands of emerging adulthood in a liberal arts context. In addition to individual counseling, Dr. Marsh coordinated the College’s suicide prevention efforts and outreach programming as well as directed the department’s professional training and group counseling programs.
Prior to Colby, she worked at Bowdoin College, the University of Rochester, and at agencies around New England where she has undertaken efforts to reduce implicit bias, discrimination, and extremism by cultivating cultural humility in community citizens. Dr. Marsh has more than 15 years experience supporting students and families in liberal arts communities and is as enlivened by coaching students and families on the threshold of college adjustment as she is by the therapeutic work that occurs inside her office. When not with clients, she is a passionate global and local adventurer and is happiest when accompanied by Farmer, her certified therapy dog, and his goofy sidekick, Sprout.