Meghan Donahoe Stoehr, LCSW

Meghan (Donahoe) Stoehr is a Pittsburgh-based licensed clinical social worker with over 12 years experience helping adolescents and young adults navigate challenges with anxiety, perfectionism, relationship stress, life transitions, OCD, depression, gender and sexuality concerns, and other emotional hardships. Meghan takes pride in developing a strong relational framework with her clients, allowing them to feel comfortable in letting their walls down, as it is here that the most meaningful change can take place. She builds genuine connections through warmth, humor, and authenticity. Meghan is committed to helping her clients process and understand past experiences and how they are impacting the now, setting goals and identifying steps toward change, and providing tangible strategies and skills for her clients to take with them from each session. Meghan works to increase coping strategies, ensuring her clients can get back to functioning as their best selves. Meghan earned her bachelors degree in psychology at Muhlenberg College. She then worked for a few years at UPMC’s adolescent partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs where she utilized cognitive behavior therapy and dialectical behavior therapy modalities to stabilize adolescents at risk for suicide and self harm. Meghan then attended the University of Pittsburgh’s Masters in Social Work program with a concentration and certification in mental health. Meghan began working for the Children’s TiPS program doing care coordination and assessment for children and youth across western PA. She additionally worked for UPMC’s Western Wellness where she conducted evidenced based therapeutic intervention for children, adolescents, and young adults. Meghan utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, exposure response prevention, and person centered therapies to support her clients. Outside the office, Meghan’s hobbies include watching documentaries, yoga, dance, reading, and spending time with friends and family, her husband, and her dog.