Licensed Psychologist · CBT for Anxiety, Chronic Illness & Medical Trauma · Online Across Texas & 42 PSYPACT States
Free 15-Minute Consultations • Online Therapy Across the 43 PSYPACT States
(512) 240-2633
Who Dr. Meghan works with
Older children, teens, and young adults. Especially those navigating chronic illness, medical trauma, perfectionism, and high-functioning anxiety.
Licensed Psychologist
Meghan Kraenbring Comerford, PsyD is a licensed psychologist who received her doctoral degree from La Salle University in Pennsylvania and completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital in Maryland. She has worked and trained in several integrated settings, including pediatric and adult hospitals, outpatient facilities, and specialty care centers.
Prior to transitioning to private practice, Dr. Meghan worked at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia seeing children who were hospitalized for acute and chronic health conditions. She has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and specializes in treating individuals struggling with complex and/or chronic medical conditions. This includes adherence to medical regimens, adjustment to new illness, medical fears and phobias, healthcare trauma, pill swallowing, and transitioning to adult care.
She also has considerable experience working with individuals with generalized anxiety, specific phobias, depression, and feeding disorders. Dr. Meghan provides gender-affirming, inclusive therapy to LGBTQIA+ individuals and those from all backgrounds.
Dr. Meghan offers virtual sessions across Texas and 42 additional PSYPACT states. If you or your young adult are working with a medical team, she is glad to collaborate so the therapy plan fits the actual life you are living, not just in theory but in the day-to-day.
Dr. Meghan’s clinical focus:
For teens, young adults, and high-achievers, especially alongside chronic medical conditions
Learn more →What anxiety can feel like when it lives in your body, and how Dr. Meghan’s CBT-based approach helps you build skills you can actually reach for.
Anxiety therapy in Houston TX, and across Texas and 42 additional PSYPACT states by video, for older kids, teens, young adults, and high-achievers whose bodies and minds will not let them rest. Dr. Meghan Comerford offers virtual sessions built around cognitive-behavioral skills you can actually reach for in the hard moments.
The anxiety does not need a reason. It rises in your chest, tightens in your throat, and some days it does not let go from morning until you finally fall asleep at night. This is not the kind of worry that passes once you think your way through it. It keeps coming.
You have a chronic medical condition layered under all of this, and the two have become impossible to separate. Your body already feels unreliable. The anxiety uses that. It finds every uncertainty your health leaves open and fills it with the worst possible version of what could happen. You worry about your health, about your family, about the future, about outcomes you cannot control and cannot stop imagining. The worry runs on a loop, and you cannot find the off switch.
You avoid things. You have learned which situations make it spike, which conversations, which commitments, and you have quietly arranged your life around them. You tell yourself it is just for now. But the list keeps growing and the world keeps shrinking.
You hold yourself to a standard that never softens. You are someone who achieves, who pushes, who does not stop. And somewhere in all of that drive, you have also become someone who cannot rest without guilt, cannot make a mistake without it meaning something about your worth, cannot let good enough actually be good enough. You are exhausted by your own expectations, and still you cannot seem to release them.
Friendships and social connection feel complicated too. Knowing what to say, how to show up, how to start or keep a relationship going, it does not come easily. And when your nervous system is already running hot, the effort it takes to navigate other people can feel like one more thing that might go wrong.
Your body carries the weight of all of this. The tension, the stomach aches, the physical symptoms that show up when the emotional ones get to be too much. You have learned that your body keeps score even when your mind is trying hard to hold it together.
What you are most tired of is the feeling of living in a body that will not settle. You want to feel calm. Not perfect calm, not medicated stillness, just ordinary ease in your own skin. You want to stop bracing. You want to stop waiting for the next thing to go wrong.
Underneath all of it, you are not even sure anymore whether you are living a life that feels like yours. The anxiety has made so many decisions for you. You know who you want to be. You have values, things that matter to you, ways you want to show up for the people you love and for yourself. But getting there means walking through a level of discomfort that right now feels unbearable. So you wait. And waiting has started to feel like its own kind of grief.
You want to be able to say no when you mean no. You want to speak up without your heart racing. You want confidence that does not have to be performed and assertiveness that does not leave you flooded with regret. You want skills you can actually reach for when the hard moments come, not just insight, but something real to do.
You are not sure that is possible for you. That this is just how your nervous system works. That calm is for other people. That the version of yourself you are hoping to become is too far from where you are standing right now.
You are still here, though. That means something.
Therapy with Meghan is grounded in a cognitive-behavioral approach. In plain terms, that means we look at the connection between what you think, what you feel, and what you do, and we start to shift that relationship in ways that are practical and lasting. This is not a process of endlessly analyzing the past. It is forward-facing, skills-based work that gives you something real to reach for.
Depending on what you are bringing in, the work together might include:
Many clients find that as they build these skills, the distress that once felt constant begins to loosen its grip. They start showing up in their relationships differently. They start making choices that feel like theirs. Clients report feeling less like anxiety is something that happens to them and more like something they can actually work with.
This is not about becoming a different person. It is about becoming more fully yourself. If you want a fuller picture of how the four-pillar care model works at Little Dove, our anxiety therapist in Austin TX page covers the full clinical approach we share across the practice.
Meghan offers virtual anxiety therapy in Houston, across Texas, and in the 42 additional PSYPACT states. PSYPACT is the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact, an agreement that lets a psychologist licensed in one participating state see clients in any other participating state. For you, that means the same care travels with you. A college student who comes home to Houston for break does not have to pause treatment. A family that relocates inside the PSYPACT network keeps the same therapist. A young adult who moves between Houston and Austin keeps one consistent care team.
Online anxiety therapy is not a downgrade. Research consistently shows it is as effective as in-person work for most anxiety presentations, and many clients find it actually easier to engage with. You are in your own space. There is no commute. The thirty minutes you would have spent driving to and from a clinic stay in your day. The session ends, and you are already home.
Anxiety therapy is a collaborative process where you work with a licensed therapist to understand the patterns keeping you stuck and build practical skills to manage them. If worry, avoidance, physical tension, or difficulty engaging in the life you want has become a regular part of your days, therapy can help. You do not need to be in crisis to reach out. Many people who seek anxiety therapy in Houston TX and surrounding areas are high-functioning on the outside and exhausted on the inside. If that sounds familiar, this work is for you.
Dr. Meghan Comerford works with older children, teens, and young adults. If your teenager is struggling with anxiety, depression, social challenges, or adjusting to a medical diagnosis, this is a space designed with them in mind. Young people deserve care that meets them where they are, not a scaled-down version of adult therapy.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT, is one of the most well-researched approaches for anxiety and depression. It focuses on the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps you develop practical strategies to shift patterns that are keeping you stuck. It is not about positive thinking or being told to just relax. It is skills-based, collaborative, and grounded in what actually works. Many clients find meaningful relief from anxiety symptoms through this approach.
Yes. Anxiety that lives alongside a chronic medical condition is real, valid, and treatable. Meghan has experience working within medical systems and understands the particular weight of navigating health uncertainty, medical procedures, and a body that does not always feel safe or predictable. Anxiety therapy in Houston TX can help you build a different relationship with your body and with the fear that comes with living in it.
That is something Meghan takes seriously. Medical trauma and fear of medical systems are real and can make it hard to seek any kind of professional support. The work here is warm, collaborative, and paced by you. You are always the expert in your own life and your own experience. Meghan can also work alongside your other providers if that feels helpful, or keep the work entirely contained to your therapy space if that feels safer.
If you are someone who pushes through, performs at a high level, and still cannot find peace at the end of the day, therapy is not a luxury. It is one of the most practical investments you can make in your ability to keep showing up. The skills you build in anxiety therapy do not stay in the therapy room. They go with you into every high-stakes moment, every hard conversation, every day you need them.
There is no single answer because it depends on what you are bringing in and what your goals are. Some clients find significant relief in a focused, short-term course of work. Others benefit from longer-term support, especially when anxiety is connected to a chronic medical condition or longstanding patterns. What Meghan can offer is a clear treatment plan built around your specific needs and an honest conversation about what progress looks like for you.
Yes. Meghan offers virtual anxiety therapy sessions and is licensed to practice in Texas and 42 additional PSYPACT states. If you are in Houston or anywhere else within that network, you can access this work from wherever you are most comfortable. Virtual sessions are a full therapeutic experience and many clients find them easier to fit into a demanding schedule.
That uncertainty is completely normal and you do not have to resolve it before reaching out. A free 15-minute consultation is exactly the right place to ask questions, share what you are carrying, and get a feel for whether working together makes sense. There is no pressure and no commitment required from a single conversation.
If you would like Meghan to collaborate with your care team, she is glad to do that. Coordinated care can make a real difference, especially when anxiety is connected to a medical condition or treatment plan. This is always your choice and will be handled with your full consent and input.
The best way to find out is to have a conversation. Fit matters in therapy, and Meghan knows that. The free consultation is designed to give you a real sense of her approach and whether it resonates. If she is not the right fit, she will help you find someone who is. The goal is for you to get the support you need, wherever that comes from.
Little Dove Psychology is a private-pay practice. We do not bill insurance directly, but we provide superbills you can submit for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Most PPO plans reimburse a portion of out-of-network mental health care. For current fees, please call 512-240-2633 or visit littledovepsychology.com.
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