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Magill Counseling Associates, LLC
Magill Counseling Associates, LLC
in Missouri and Pennsylvania Ph: 844-690-2247

  • I am passionate about providing the skills, interventions, and support so you can find the freedom to live the life you want.

Magill Counseling Associates

Offering Online Appointments (Like FaceTime or Skype) in Missouri and Pennsylvania

Call 844-690-2247 or use the form below to schedule an appointment.
Same week appointments available!

happy family from counseling

A story about Jack 

Jack, CEO of a growing company, wakes at 5:15 AM with his mind already racing. He heads straight to the home gym while his wife Jill sleeps. On the treadmill, he replays yesterday’s tense board call. A small comment from a board member stung more than it should. He pushes harder through the workout to shake it off.


Jill, a VP at another firm, wakes at 6:00 AM to a flood of emails. She joins Jack for a quick breakfast. They talk briefly about the day ahead—meetings, deadlines—then it’s quiet. Last night’s argument hangs in the air: she wanted to talk about her frustrations; he was defensive and changed the subject.


By 7:30 AM Jack is in traffic. Someone cuts him off and his temper flares fast. At the office he runs meetings, closes deals, and looks sharp doing it. But when an analyst messes up a small slide, he snaps harder than he meant to, then feels lousy about it later.


Jill’s day is nonstop meetings and putting out fires. Around lunch she texts Jack: “Thinking of you.” His reply comes hours later: “Busy. You too.”

They get home around 7:30 PM and eat takeout on the couch. Jill says quietly, “We keep having the same fight. I miss feeling close.” Jack nods. After a long pause he says, “So do I.”


How I Help Jack and Jill

I help individuals and couples like Jack and Jill every day find the freedom to live the life they want. Frequent conflict, relationship challenges, and irritability are often caused by underlying stress, feeling overwhelmed, and learned responses that are no longer helpful. To move from this to a life of freedom, I offer:

  • DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy): A skills-focused approach to managing emotions, interpersonal relationships, and conflicting thoughts and emotions.
  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): An evidence-based approach to resolving trauma without the need to tell the whole story over and over. 
  • Gottman Method Couples Counseling: An evidence-based approached to couples counseling based on decades of research. This approach focuses on rebuilding the relationship and improving communication. Specific approaches are available for those with difficult or traumatic pasts and couples facing affairs within their relationship.
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couples counseling

Comprehensive Care

I offer a variety of services to meet your specific needs. They include:
  • Comprehensive Trauma Care services
    • Weekly individual appointments
    • Weekly couples counseling
    • Phone coaching between appointments
  • Marriage Intensives
    • A whole day (about 6 hours of counseling) to focus on roadblocks in your marriage.
    • Effective for resolving emotionally-charged and gridlocked relationship challenges
  • Individual Counseling
  • Couples Counseling
  • Coordination with your PCP and/or psychiatrist to enhance treatment effectiveness

About Me

  • 10+ years of clinical experience
  • Advanced training in treating trauma and couples
  • Advanced certification in treating addictions and gambling challenges
  • Ph.D. in Psychology
    • International Mental Health Concentration
    • Industrial/Organizational Psychology Concentration
  • MA in Clinical Counseling
  • BA in Applied Psychology

Services

Online Counseling

Online Counseling provides an effective way to meet with a counselor face-to-face without being in the same room. We use Zoom, which allows for you and your counselor to see and hear each other in real time, the ability to draw on a white board, and more!

Individual Counseling

Individual Counseling provides one-to-one counseling to dive into your roadblocks and what is concerning you. I focus on DBT and EMDR modalities.

Couples Counseling

Couples counseling provides a platform to work with your partner to resolve conflicts in your relationship, learn skills to improve your relationship, and take average relationships and make them great.

Comprehensive Trauma Care

I offer a monthly comprehensive trauma treatment package that combines DBT, EMDR and couples therapy. Specifically:

  • Weekly DBT or EMDR sessions
  • Weekly couples counseling to improve that relationship and address the impact of trauma on the relationship.
Marriage Intensive

Sometimes relationships get stuck. Really stuck.


Sometimes trust is broken.


Sometimes one disagreement just doesn't get resolved.


Even with weekly couples counseling.


That is where marriage intensives help! For deeply engrained gridlocks, trauma, or difficulty with trust, sometimes weekly appointments aren't enough. Instead of being helpful, one hour is enough time to bring up hurt or pain, and leave it to stew over the week.


Couples intensives address this directly by providing a day-long opportunity to do a deep dive into the challenges within a relationship. In this context, the hurt, pain, and needs can be brought up, discussed, and an actionable and mutually-beneficial plan can be developed. 

Clinical Supervision

I offer clinical supervision on a monthly basis.


Please call me at 844-690-2247 or email me at info@magillcounseling.com to discuss your supervision needs.


Payment Options

Intake: $175

Individual: $175

Couples Appointment: $175

Comprehensive Trauma Care: $1,000 per month ($400 savings per month)

Marriage Intensive: $800 per day ($250 savings)