Megan Quigley, LCSW

01/28/2026

Making space tonight for emotions of sadness and anger. The way through suffering begins not by pushing our emotions away, but by allowing them to exist — even the painful ones.

12/24/2025

So grateful to be included in this video for EMDR International Association. As EMDR clinicians, we were asked to share our biggest fears or hurdles in becoming an EMDR therapist.

Spoiler: most of us didn’t start out feeling confident or “ready.” Growth often came through the uncertainty, not after it. I hope this is encouraging for anyone considering EMDR training or finding their footing along the way.

To highlight the importance of professional growth and ‘becoming’ for EMDR therapists, we asked EMDRIA Members to answer the question, "What was your biggest...

11/04/2025

One of my favorite tools to use as an EMDR therapist is a cognitive interweave. A cognitive interweave is a brief question or statement we can make during the reprocessing phase of EMDR that can help gently move the healing process along, if by chance the reprocessing of a traumatic memory becomes stuck. Below are some great examples from EMDR with Carly.

Get a free PDF Download packed with powerful interweaves to strengthen your EMDR practice and deepen your clinical confidence.

11/02/2025

It’s the end of Daylight Saving Time, aka hibernation o’clock. We gathered advice from a whole host of experts on how to ease into the dark.

11/01/2025

10/11/2025

How we feel and the emotions we experience are a central part of our mental health. Conversely how we respond to emotions is critical for our health, mental and physical. While they can perplexing, stubborn, frustrating, annoying, frightening and downright depressing at times, emotions are a fundamental and necessary part of brain functioning. In fact, they are central to being human.

Unfortunately societal beliefs often tells us we shouldn’t have emotions or some emotions are bad. Telling your brain it shouldn’t have emotions is like telling your heart not to beat or your lungs not to breathe, and it doesn’t make your brain very happy.

Emotions don’t always feel nice and can make us want to run away from them. And like any avoidance, short term this seems to work, we feel relieved. But inside your brain is feeling pretty annoyed at trying to hold it all in.

How you respond to your emotions is important. Research shows suppressing, berating and shaming emotions doesn’t help us deal with them at all and just creates more stress and make emotions feel even more difficult.

Naming, validating, expressing and recognising emotions seems to help us process them and help us become friends with them, rather than them having power over us. It seems to soothe those emotions and instead of adding a layer of more stress and difficult feelings, helps us deal with the ones we have.

read more about the science of emotions and how we can help our emotions in my books
📕‘A Toolkit for your Emotions’.
📚 A toolkit for modern life
📖 A toolkit for happiness

09/14/2025

EMDRIA Conference 2026 in Anaheim, CA ✨

09/14/2025

Just wrapped up an inspiring week at the 30th annual EMDRIA conference! 🌟 It was a fantastic opportunity to dive into the latest research, learn from leading experts, and connect with fellow EMDR clinicians. Excited to bring fresh insights and innovative techniques back to my work with clients.💡

07/31/2025

I’m heading to ! Can’t wait to connect, learn, and grow with other EMDR therapists. Join me!

07/14/2025

Yet another article that mentions CBT-I, the "very effective therapy" for the treatment of insomnia.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Senior has had insomnia for 25 years. Her new piece in The Atlantic is about her often futile attempts to fall asleep, and about the latest research into insomnia.

05/10/2025

Here’s what experts say about snooze buttons, sunlight and sleeping in.

05/07/2025

🧠 May is Mental Health Awareness Month — and sleep plays a powerful role in protecting your mental well-being.

This month, take a moment to reflect on your sleep habits—and explore ways to support your mental health through rest. Learn healthy sleep tips here: https://hubs.ly/Q03ld7v40