Meaghan Martin, LCSW

 Meaghan Martin received her Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) from Simmons University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). She worked in the social work field assisting in equine-assisted psychotherapy sessions for five years prior to graduating with her MSW. As a graduate student she trained at the Island Institute for Trauma Recovery in Saco, where she continues to work in addition to her equine-assisted practice. She has focused on working with LGBTQIA+ individuals and people who have experienced trauma. She is also a trained End-of-Life Doula and is prepared to help clients navigate facing a life-limiting illness.

Meaghan has been working with horses for over 25 years and has been fortunate enough to experience firsthand the powerful healing that horses can facilitate as partners in the therapeutic process. She is grateful to now be able to share this with others.

Meaghan blends equine-assisted psychotherapy, somatic awareness, and mindfulness-based approaches with psychoeducation, and she believes that the therapeutic relationship is the foundation for the rest of the work done in therapy. She is trained in trauma-reprocessing modalities such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). She believes her role as a therapist is to support the client and guide them towards their own inner strengths and resiliencies while helping them to build skills and reprocess trauma. Non-judgement and respect are at the core of her work; she strongly believes that the client is the expert on their own experience.