A return to the Wild Heart
coming home to Self, relationship, and the living world
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My approach to counseling is rooted in the belief that healing happens in relationship—with ourselves, with one another, and with the living world around us. I work with individuals, couples, and people in many forms of relationship, including families, friendships, co-living relationships, and creative or professional partnerships. Together, we create space to meet what is present with curiosity and compassion, deepen connection, and find our way toward more authentic ways of being and relating.
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Circles are spaces to gather with intention—to slow down, listen deeply, and explore what is alive within us and between us. Rooted in the natural world and shaped by shared inquiry, mindfulness, creative expression, ritual, and relational practice, each circle offers an opportunity to be witnessed, to witness others, and to deepen our sense of connection and belonging. Offerings change with the seasons and may center themes such as grief, intimacy, life transitions, caretaking, creativity, and the inner life.
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Wild Heart Meadow offers immersive retreats for couples and other relational groups seeking dedicated time and space to deepen their work together. Held at the Cabin at 100 Acre Wood Retreat Center in Norway, Maine, retreats weave therapeutic and experiential practices with the restorative rhythms of the natural world. Retreats and intensives are offered by Meg, independently or in collaboration with other practitioners.
In seasons of transition, grief, disconnection, or uncertainty, we may find ourselves longing for a deeper sense of meaning and belonging.
These moments can be invitations to slow down, turn toward what is asking for our attention, and find our way back to a wild, more authentic way of being.
Barred Owl at 100 Acre Woods Retreat Center
I get nervous when a camera is on me. I am stiff and rigid and strike poses, unnaturally. Aw, sweet one, I see you, I see your bright self, smiling.
My Approach
My approach to counseling is experiential, existential, and trauma-informed, grounded in the belief that healing happens through relationship—with ourselves, with one another, and with the living world.
My work is informed by Buddhist psychology and mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, person-centered and existential traditions, somatic practices, and an understanding of attachment and family systems. I hold a deep respect for the ways our families, relationships, cultures, communities, and lived experiences shape the stories we carry about who we are, how we belong, and what is possible for our lives.
I see counseling as a collaboration—an alliance built through curiosity, trust, compassion, and the willingness to pay attention to what is here. Together, we explore not only the stories you bring with you, but what is happening in the present: in your body, within your inner world, in relationship, and in the space between us.
Often, the places where we feel stuck were once ways of keeping ourselves safe. Parts of us may remain organized around old fears, losses, unmet needs, or stories even when our present lives have changed. Rather than trying to eliminate or overcome these parts, we can turn toward them with curiosity and compassion—listening for what they have protected, tending what still hurts, and creating space for new possibilities to emerge.
The body is an important part of this process. Through somatic awareness, mindfulness, breath-centered practices, and slowing down enough to notice our inner signals, we can deepen our capacity to remain present with ourselves. Sometimes the body knows something before we have words for it.
Meg and her dog, Wally, walk down the stone steps to the spring-fed, mineral-rich pond at The Cabin on 100 Acre Woods Retreat Center
What I am Tending
Relationship & Intimacy
I work with individuals, couples, and people in many forms of relationship, including families, friendships, co-living relationships, and creative or professional partnerships. Relational work invites us to become curious about not only what lives within us, but what emerges between us.
Many of us long to be deeply known while simultaneously fearing what might happen if we allow ourselves to be fully seen. As we move toward intimacy, we may encounter the shadow of vulnerability—shame, fear, longing, anger, protective patterns, or the impulse to withdraw, please, fix, or hide. Our work can become a place to practice staying present with these experiences, meeting ourselves and one another with greater honesty, compassion, and loving-kindness.
Grief, Transition & the Inner Life
Grief can arrive through death and loss, but also through relationships ending, identities changing, unrealized futures, aging, changes in our bodies, and the many thresholds that ask us to leave one version of life without yet knowing what comes next.
I hold grief as something that needs space to be witnessed and expressed rather than hurried toward resolution. My own experiences of loss have deepened my relationship with grief through nature, ritual, expression, and remembrance. I bring those learnings humbly into the counseling space for those who need somewhere for their grief to be felt, tended, expressed, or ritualized.
The Living World
Nature is more than a setting for this work; it can also be a teacher and companion. The natural world invites us to slow down and pay attention—to cycles of growth and decay, darkness and emergence, solitude and interdependence. It can help us regulate, return to our bodies, and remember that we belong within a web of life larger than ourselves.
Depending on the work and what feels supportive, our time together may include being outdoors, walking, sitting by the pond or fire, noticing the seasons, or simply allowing the rhythms and teachings of the natural world to inform what happens inside.
I also believe healing happens in community. Through circles and small groups, we have opportunities to experience the vulnerability and medicine of witnessing and being witnessed—to discover what changes when more of who we are is allowed to belong in the presence of others.
Coming Home
Just as the natural world moves through seasons of growth, loss, rest, darkness, and renewal, so do we. I don't see healing as becoming a perfected version of ourselves. I see it as developing the capacity to meet more of ourselves with compassion, loosen the stories and patterns that no longer serve us, and live with greater presence and authenticity.
Perhaps, in this way, healing is a kind of remembering—a finding of our way home to ourselves, to one another, and to our place within the living world.