Dr. Megan Lawson, ABPP

Dr. Megan Lawson is a board-certified clinical psychologist, a distinction held by fewer than 5% of practitioners nationally. She trained at The University of Texas at Austin and Pepperdine University, and her work draws from relational and depth psychology, family systems, and interpersonal neurobiology. She is less interested in solving you than in understanding you and helping you to make meaningful change in your life. Dr. Lawson believes that the things bringing people to therapy like anxiety, relationship strain, grief, perfectionism, neurodivergence, demanding careers, patterns of escape, the sense that something is off, are rarely just problems to be fixed. They are patterns with history and meaning, often serving an important function that ought to be understood and integrated. She brings warmth, rigor, and genuine curiosity to every person she works with and will not judge you for the complexities that bring you into her therapy or consulting room. In addition to her broad clinical training, she has specialty training in diagnosing autism spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental evaluations, and spent two years at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles providing neuropsychological evaluations. She completed forensic training at Bexar County Juvenile. Prior to starting her own practice, she spent years building a multi-clinician group practice. She has served as the President of the Society of Psychoanalytic Studies San Antonio, is a board member of the San Antonio Group Psychotherapy Society, and is an active member of the American Psychological Association. She is also the current chair of a special interest group for Division 53. This practice is private pay and does not bill insurance. That means your care is not documented in insurance systems, your records remain between you and Dr. Lawson, and your treatment is shaped entirely by your needs and not by a diagnosis code or a coverage limit. Your care is handled with complete discretion.