Hi, I’m Megan Maclean.

I've spent twenty years in service to people navigating some of life's hardest passages—women rebuilding after violence, survivors reclaiming their lives from trafficking and exploitation, youth aging out of systems, students struggling to graduate high school, people living with newly acquired brain injury, and male survivors of sexual violence.

This work has taken me from classrooms to safe houses, from rape crisis and community mental health to private practice, and into the rooms where policies get written and programs get built.

My approach is rooted in feminist and anti-oppressive practice. I believe healing happens in relationship—with ourselves, with others, and with something larger. I bring a spiritually grounded lens to my clinical work, drawing on training in EMDR, Emotion Focused Therapy, attachment and human development alongside more traditional modalities. I'm drawn to the edges, to the questions that don't have clean-cut answers, and to the people who've been told they're "too complicated."

I also work at the systems level—consulting with organizations on program development, policy design, and trauma-informed practice. I've helped build a hotel emergency shelter program for trafficking survivors, trained and supported peer advocates of gender-based violence and human trafficking, developed group curricula for rape crisis centres, and trained frontline workers and clinicians in anti-oppressive approaches to sexual violence support. My leadership work has included grass roots leadership, managing programs, and counselling high school students in urban priority neighbourhoods. I care deeply about how services are designed, who they're designed for, and whether they actually serve the people they claim to.

I hold a Master of Social Work, a Bachelor of Psychology, and a Bachelor of Education. Alongside my consulting and community work, I provide psychotherapy to young adults and adults through thesessionspace.ca, based in West End Toronto and Newmarket, Ontario. My formal training grounds the feminist and anti‑oppressive practice that shapes my work today.

Whether you're a survivor seeking support, an organization—public, private, or nonprofit—trying to do this work better, or a woman in transition looking for a therapist who won't flinch, reach out.