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Meg Higgins, MSW, LICSW
(she/her, they/them)
Psychotherapist
Meg Higgins Therapy
virtual,
North Carolina,
United States
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Takes Insurance
In-Network Insurance Companies:
- aetna
- blue cross blue shield
Specialties & Areas of Focus:
- Fat Clients
- LGBTQIA+ Clients (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, plus)
- Systems of Oppression
Modalities & Theoretical Lenses:
- fat liberation
- intersectional feminism
- anti-racist
- anti-oppression
Age Groups Served:
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Older Adults (65+ years old)
Additional Populations Served & Allied Groups:
- fat folks
- LGBTQIA+
- transgender & nonbinary folks
- BIPOC folks
- activists
Languages Services Offered In:
- English
- English
My Philosophy of Care
I am a solo practitioner working via telehealth in North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Minnesota. I work primarily with fat and queer people. Many of my clients experience significant medical discrimination because of weight. As a superfat person, I too experience significant discrimination. One of my missions is to help people navigate the oppressive system we face in society by building their sense of self-worth and by advocating for change to the system that oppresses all of us.
I’m fat, I’m queer, I have an intersectional lens, and I want to dismantle systems of oppression one client session at a time.
I’m fat, I’m queer, I have an intersectional lens, and I want to dismantle systems of oppression one client session at a time.
About Me & My Practice
I’m a forty-one year old, queer, fat, white person who lives in North Carolina. I’m a licensed therapist (LCSW in NC, LICSW in MA & MN). I do therapy via telehealth for clients located in North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Minnesota. I like reading, writing, fat studies, queerness, tarot cards, disrupting power dynamics by being unapologetically myself in all spaces, and learning new stuff. I love doing therapy and feel blessed every day that I get paid to do what I have always wanted to do.
I believe that our lived experience strongly informs who we are and what we do. I also believe that a therapist must be aware of power dynamics that they intentionally and unintentionally bring to their practice. To that end you should know that I am: White Superfat Queer Genderqueer (she/they please) Assigned female at birth Financially privileged Blessed with a festival of mental health diagnoses - Don't worry though, I work on my stuff with my therapist, we will just be working on your stuff. Neurodivergent - ADHD flavored Disabled in multiple ways
I believe that our lived experience strongly informs who we are and what we do. I also believe that a therapist must be aware of power dynamics that they intentionally and unintentionally bring to their practice. To that end you should know that I am: White Superfat Queer Genderqueer (she/they please) Assigned female at birth Financially privileged Blessed with a festival of mental health diagnoses - Don't worry though, I work on my stuff with my therapist, we will just be working on your stuff. Neurodivergent - ADHD flavored Disabled in multiple ways
Accessibility Considerations
As a telehealth provider the main accessibility concern for my work is for folks who don’t have access to a computer or phone or other way to attend video or audio sessions. I am more than happy to do phone sessions for folks with visual impairments or for whom a computer is not available. I am also more than happy to conduct sessions via zoom’s chat function (with or without the camera) for hearing impaired clients or for clients for whom being visually perceived is stressful but who also don’t want to do a phone session.